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This can be taken to mean that visibility changes what the next generation sees as normal. The quote points to progress becoming part of daily expectation, not just a headline or exception, and it lands when people talk about representation in public life. In that setting, it carries the hope that barriers for women and African-Americans will feel less fixed.
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About Hillary Clinton
American politician, lawyer, and diplomat
Hillary Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She served as U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, represented New York in the U.S. Senate from 2001 to 2009, and was first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was its nominee in the 2016 presidential election and became the first woman to win a major U.S. party’s presidential nomination. Clinton won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College to Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for, or held, elected office.
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