HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 2016
âI really donât spend a lot of time worrying about what people think about meâŚI would be totally paralyzed. How could you get up in the morning if you worried about some poll or what somebody said about you? Thatâs giving up power over your life to somebody else, and I donât intend to do that.â
âOccasionally Iâll be sitting somewhere and Iâll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And Iâll look down at my hand and Iâll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.â
âIâm not going to mislead anybody. Politics is really hard. And it is harder for women. Thereâs a double standard, and you canât complain about it. You just have to accept it, and be smart enough to navigate it. And you have to have a pretty tough skin. To paraphrase a favorite quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: If a woman wants to be in politics, she has to have the skin of a rhinoceros. Most men who go into politics just think theyâre great. They believe they can do anything. Most young women, not only in politics but in most areas, are more cautious and more likely to say, âCould I really do this? Am I good enough?â I was talking to a friend and very successful businessman the other day, and he said, âThe thing that still annoys me more than anything is that I see all these young women who are so much more capable than they allow themselves to believe. And I see so many young men who are so much less capable but who believe they are Godâs gift to the world.â I would just say to women: Try it! Put your foot in the pond and see if you want to swim.â
âWhen you stumble, keep faith. And when youâre knocked down, get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you canât or shouldnât go on.â
âGay rights are human rights.â
âWomenâs rights are human rights.â
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