Happy birthday to the woman held to impossible standards.
Hereās to all you have accomplished:
CHILDRENāS DEFENSE FUND:
Investigated African American juveniles being placed in South Carolina adult prisons, and posed as a racist housewife to expose segregation throughout schools in the South.
Hillary successfully reformed the entire K-12 Arkansas educational system, expanded healthcare for those in rural Arkansas, worked at the Arkansas Childrenās Hospital Legal Services, and co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. First female partner of the Rose Law Firm.
The joke in Arkansas was that they āhired the wrong Clinton.ā
FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES:
Hillary spearheaded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Foster Care Independence Act, Office on Violence Against Women, the Campaign Against Teenage Pregnancy (lowering abortion and teenage pregnancy rates), and the Childrenās Health Insurance Program ā providing 8.9 million low-income children with healthcare access.
In 1994, Hillary proclaimed on the world stage in Beijing, China:
āIf there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are womenās rights and womenās rights are human rights once and for all.ā
TWO-TIME NEW YORK SENATOR:
Hillary secured 20 billion in federal funds to rebuild downtown New York City after 9/11. She also secured healthcare for 9/11 First Responders and expanded access to care for the National Guard, Reservists, and their families.
Passed the first-ever U.N Resolution on gay rights (proclaiming: āhuman rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rightsā on the world stage), and made it so trans Americans can legally change their gender on their passport. Hillary also rebuilt relations with every nation after the disastrous Bush Administration, traveling to 112 countries ā more than any other Secretary of State. Our worldwide favorability rose 20% during Hillaryās tenure. Her primary focus was on womenās rights and health, bringing up issues such as forced abortion and maternal mortality rates. Hillary re-opened relations with Burma, enacted a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and killed Osama Bin Laden. She also was instrumental in putting together the Paris Climate Agreement, something Trump has since removed us from.
FIRST-FEMALE NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF A MAJOR U.S. PARTY:
2016 popular vote winner ā 3 million more votes!
FOUNDER OF āONWARD TOGETHERā:
An organization supporting progressive candidates nationwide.
āIām not going to mislead anybody. Politics is really hard. And it is harder for women. Thereās a double standard, and you canāt 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. So occasionally Iāll be sitting somewhere and Iāll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And Iāll look down at my hand and Iāll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.ā
~Hillary Rodham Clinton
āEvery moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been.ā
~Hillary Rodham Clinton
āWhen you stumble, keep faith. And when youāre knocked down, get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you canāt or shouldnāt go on.ā
~Hillary Rodham Clinton
āI really donāt spend a lot of time worrying about what people think about meā¦I would be totally paralyzed. How could you get up in the morning if you worried about some poll or what somebody said about you? Thatās giving up power over your life to somebody else, and I donāt intend to do that.ā
~Hillary Rodham Clinton