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(72,903 posts) Fri Feb 14, 2014, 11:17 AM Feb 2014

Hillary Clinton Advice For Young Women: ‘Grow Skin Like A Rhinoceros’ [View all]

By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 2/13/14 4:30 PM EST

Hillary Clinton told a packed auditorium of New York University students Thursday that the most important tip she could offer women in public life was a lesson she took from one of her role models, Eleanor Roosevelt:

“Grow skin like a rhinoceros.”

It's a goddamn shame that in order to fend off attacks from crazed right-wingers, the women of America must lumber around like armor-plated beasts.

Is gentlemanly respect for the fairer sex a relic of the past for our wingnut friends?

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Hillary Clinton Advice For Young Women: ‘Grow Skin Like A Rhinoceros’ [View all] kpete Feb 2014 OP

Yeah, the problem with that, Madam Secretary, Le Taz Hot Feb 2014 #1

Seems to me you are merely defining yourself. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #2

How did this become about me? Le Taz Hot Feb 2014 #4

I think she might have told girls they should come from a priviliged background. Kurovski Feb 2014 #35

That's an interesting point, but I'm not sure it applies Renew Deal Feb 2014 #5

I digressed. Le Taz Hot Feb 2014 #6

You apparently miss the point AgingAmerican Feb 2014 #61

This is probably true for all politicians Renew Deal Feb 2014 #3

It doesn't only apply to politicians though justiceischeap Feb 2014 #9

Exactly right BrotherIvan Feb 2014 #29

Being a creative type myself, I doubt they start out completely justiceischeap Feb 2014 #33

It seems like her fellow Democrats are the most vicious. Walk away Feb 2014 #7

Hear, hear!!! Beacool Feb 2014 #19

We don't get to vote for progressives. Kurovski Feb 2014 #37

JFK was a Progressive? Walk away Feb 2014 #54

Would he pass AgingAmerican Feb 2014 #62

I would not be surprised if he easily did. nt Walk away Feb 2014 #66

Supporting brutal invasions of other people's countries is not supporting women's sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #46

Yes she has ... Evergreen Emerald Feb 2014 #53

Has she ever apologized for her support for the invasions of those countries, Iraq in sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #55

Yes she has.... Evergreen Emerald Feb 2014 #57

"Gentlemanly respect for the fairer sex" NM_Birder Feb 2014 #8

How much was she paid to make that speech? n/t Wilms Feb 2014 #10

Obviously you didn't read the article. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #11

I read the article NM_Birder Feb 2014 #12

Well, if you can't figure that out you have not DURHAM D Feb 2014 #13

LOL ........... NM_Birder Feb 2014 #14

Have fun - the answer is still zero. nt DURHAM D Feb 2014 #17

No condecending little comment? ran out of steam pretty quick. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #18

Ignorance is boring. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #20

lying for attention is childish. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #24

Has she ever addressed what War does to women? Ever apologized to the women sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #47

I just hate that she started that war while she was President. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #50

Can't defend her support with her vote for that massive violation of human rights sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #56

If you have the gumption, why don't you get in her face and ask her? Beacool Feb 2014 #21

"Get in her face"? Wilms Feb 2014 #25

You struck a nerve didn't you ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #27

Yeah, a Clinton has never given a free speech EVER.......... Beacool Feb 2014 #30

The speech was at NYU. Beacool Feb 2014 #31

NYU=no fee speeches ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #39

Apparently some folks just don't know that when DURHAM D Feb 2014 #40

They know, they just like to pretend that they don't. Beacool Feb 2014 #45

where is pay even mentioned in the article ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #26

You may repeat your last comment again. Beacool Feb 2014 #32

inane does not mean correct. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #38

It's inane because it's incorrect. Beacool Feb 2014 #43

Hard to argue facts when the word "probably" appears...anyway NM_Birder Feb 2014 #51

You tire me. Beacool Feb 2014 #58

I met her once, but that was before she became a war supporter, or at least sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #48

There is no such thing as 'common courtesy' when it comes to the GOP. Rex Feb 2014 #15

I don't see why there needs to be a double standard treestar Feb 2014 #16

It's a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt dating to the 1920s. Beacool Feb 2014 #23

Eleanor and her husband would have been appalled by the Cintons. Kurovski Feb 2014 #36

I wouldn't be to sure of that treestar Feb 2014 #41

He spoke out and fought for the suffering poor in this country, as did Mrs. roosevelt Kurovski Feb 2014 #42

Verbally? treestar Feb 2014 #65

Hillary is not riding on "Eleanor's good works". Beacool Feb 2014 #44

I agree, they would be appalled at the corporatism that has taken over the Dem Party. sabrina 1 Feb 2014 #49

"gentlemanly respect for the fairer sex" isn't respect at all. It's condescension. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #22

*gasp! I think I agree with you. Whisp Feb 2014 #64

That's good advice for anyone involved in politics CJCRANE Feb 2014 #28

It's skin can protect it, HockeyMom Feb 2014 #34

well at least she's not black, and poor AND a woman. Whisp Feb 2014 #52

I guess she shouldn't stand up for women's rights because she's neither poor nor black? Beacool Feb 2014 #59

She doesn't even have to fight for the right to have a villa in France... Whisp Feb 2014 #63

Whisp, quit twisting yourself into a pretzel. Beacool Feb 2014 #67

Please don't call my dog a fleabag. Whisp Feb 2014 #68

It's a joke. Beacool Feb 2014 #69

That sounds like good advice in general. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2014 #60