A Woman in Charge (95 page)
“There was noâ¦all of us”: Ruth Adams, Wellesley College Commencement Speech, May 31, 1969.
“empathy”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech, May 31, 1969.
“coercive protest”: Ibid. 58 “I find myselfâ¦impossible, possible”: Ibid.
“We areâ¦of living”: Ibid.
“She said itâ¦. too far'”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 259.
“a very strangeâ¦ideas”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
“the one wordâ¦distrusted?”: Ibid.
“that mutuality ofâ¦for people”: Ibid.
“In many waysâ¦as mine”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 40.
“My entrance intoâ¦bygone age”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
Chapter 3: Love and War at Yale
“both passionately shareâ¦each other”: Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“sharing of valuesâ¦of them”: Author's interview with Deborah Sale.
“Hillary was interestedâ¦change most of the world”: Ibid.
“ultimately Hillaryâ¦1970s”: Ibid.
“The politicalâ¦married him”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“In factâ¦to run”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“with Billâ¦zeal”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“Well, firstâ¦any more women”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 38.
“We were awedâ¦our class”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 248.
“knew she wantedâ¦recognition”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“You had anâ¦impressive”: Author's interview with Peter Edelman.
“was at war with its own people”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 44.
“This, the first issueâ¦problems”: Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
p. 28.
“for too longâ¦possible”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
“were notâ¦of people”: Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
p. 28
“the grim Connecticutâ¦ghetto”: Ibid., p. 30.
“University and theâ¦Campus”: Ibid., p. 32.
“Lawyers and Revolutionariesâ¦Justice”: Ibid.
“I personallyâ¦in U.S.”: Ibid., p. 30.
“Come to Newâ¦Day”: Ibid., p. 31.
“All power toâ¦peace”: Ibid.
“far moreâ¦to the left”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 92.
“There was aâ¦young woman”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 78.
“Burn Yaleâ¦police state tactics”: Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
p. 31.
“the largest assemblageâ¦witnessed”:
Yale Daily News,
May 2, 1970.
“illegal and unconstitutional”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 46.
“not disruption or ârevolution'”: Ibid.
“the unconscionable expansionâ¦waged”: Ibid.
“Here we areâ¦run us?”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 95.
“You reallyâ¦for them”: www.womenshistory.about.com.
“starving, hungryâ¦a person”: Mission of the Children's Defense Fund Action Counsel.
“Of course”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 96.
“Women administerâ¦politics”: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_Woman_Both_Houses.htm.
“I always likedâ¦done”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 96.
“a personal turning point”: Carole Bass, “Rights of Passage,”
Connecticut Law Tribune,
October 12, 1992.
“I began toâ¦play”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 98.
“a more suitable family”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 49.
“child citizens”: Clinton, “Children Under the Law,”
Harvard Educational Review,
1974.
“believes that twelveâ¦slavery”: Patrick Buchanan, Speech, Republican National Convention, Houston, August 17, 1992.
“one of theâ¦decades”: Garry Wills, “H. R. Clinton's Case,”
The New York Review of Books,
Vol. 30, No. 5 (March 5, 1992).
“I want toâ¦children”: Clinton, “Children Under the Law.”
“Falling inâ¦. Clinton”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 76.'
“was the wildâ¦existence”: Ibid., p. 83
“He was theâ¦of me”: Ibid., p. 76.
“I was afraid of us”: Ibid.
“It is alwaysâ¦voice”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 232.
“I'd never seenâ¦on me”: Author's interview with Nancy Bekavac.
“While law schoolâ¦a while”: Bill Clinton,
My Life
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 181.
“One dayâ¦woman”: Ibid.
“And Hillary cameâ¦didn't take”: Author's interview with Robert Reich.
“looking moreâ¦scholar”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 52.
“little by littleâ¦acquaintance”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 100.
“politely excused myself”: Ibid.
“chicken coop”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 71.
“went for a long walkâ¦your friends”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 53.
“was much moreâ¦suggest”: Ibid.
“I remember beginâ¦was going”: Author's interview with Nancy Bekavac.
“They were veryâ¦Bill!”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 247.
“he cared deeplyâ¦disconnected”: Ibid.
“My responseâ¦charming”: Author's interview with Deborah Sale.
“looked like a hippie”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 248.
“Their values areâ¦quick”: Author's interview with Deborah Sale.
“I just likedâ¦thing”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“The Bill Clintonâ¦the tactician”: Gergen,
Eyewitness to Power
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 297.
“He can astonishâ¦surgeon”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 53.
“The reason sheâ¦McCarthy era”: Author's interview with Robert Treuhaft.
“two wereâ¦communists”: Ibid.
“All I canâ¦wasn't”: Brock,
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
p. 33.
“at Treuhaftâ¦California”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 54.'
“fiercenessâ¦the room”: Author's interview with Stan Greenberg.
“she has aâ¦he has”: Author's interview with Dick Morris.
“But is thatâ¦someone?”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 263.
“Hillary wasâ¦
Mockingbird
”: Ibid., p. 264.
“We wereâ¦high-mindedness”: Author's interview with Sara Ehrman.
“Fearless”: Ibid.
“I'd call itâ¦her side”: Ibid.
“Bill Clinton tappedâ¦she's free”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 85.
“You really saved our relationship”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 277.
“more focusedâ¦questions”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 114.
“Bill and I talkedâ¦to Bill”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 277.
“women wereâ¦force”: Ibid.
“It was a nascentâ¦world”: Ibid.
Chapter 4: Making Arkansas Home
“There areâ¦infidelity”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“I never doubtedâ¦friends”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Good Marriages Are More Than a Piece of Paper,”
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
October 8, 1995, p. 2.
“Yankee”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 63.
“What are youâ¦Oh, you knowâ¦her here”: Author's interview with Max Brantley.
“When I learnedâ¦something”: Ibid.
“the perfect place to live”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 202.
Clinton had alwaysâ¦for them: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 202.
“would be a high-wire operation”: Ibid., p. 209.
“head andâ¦more experience”: Ibid.
“disapproved of whatâ¦Little Rock”: Ibid., p. 211.
“you have toâ¦small pond”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 316.
“besottedâ¦light up”: Ibid., p. 313.
“come in someâ¦someday'”: Ibid.
“You don't understandâ¦It's not”: Author's interview with Bernard Nussbaum.
“She started callingâ¦to fill”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 319.
“I was veryâ¦women”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“about broke downâ¦miserable”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 321.
“There were girlsâ¦our lives”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
In Washingtonâ¦their work”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 312.
“Hillary came dressedâ¦Arkansas”: Ibid., p. 317.
“She didn't careâ¦great time”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 125.
“Well, how longâ¦you out”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 319.
“Clinton for Congress”: Ibid., p. 320.
“the Yankees in the Cadillac”: Ibid.
“least [because]â¦wanted”: Norman King,
Hillary: Her True Story
(New York: Carol, 1993), p. 46.
“But you knowâ¦not to”: Martha Sherrill, “The Rising Lawyer's Detour to Arkansas: At Wellesley, She Found Her Calling; At Yale, She Met Her Future,”
Washington Post,
January 12, 1993.
“chiefs”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 307.
“evil”: Maraniss, Ibid., p. 310.
“With the unexpectedâ¦a chance”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 69.
“brilliant and dazzling”: Author's interview with Sara Ehrman.
“You are crazy”: King,
Hillary: Her True Story,
p. 53.
“at sea aboutâ¦to be”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 316.
“Why on earthâ¦future?”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 69.
“Are you sureâ¦noâ¦anyway”: Ibid., p. 63.
“My friends andâ¦. as well”: Radcliffe,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
p. 136.
“I was just appalled”: Ibid., p. 137.
“He's not homeâ¦camping”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 71.
“She was movingâ¦twenty”: Author's interview with Deborah Sale.
“All business”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 328.
“If you wereâ¦laid-back”: Author's interview with Woody Bassett.
“unusual abilityâ¦. bottom line”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 328.
“We walked overâ¦impressed me”: Author's interview with Diane Blair.
“somebody like meâ¦the smallestâ¦We bothâ¦dress code”: Ibid.
“We'd go outâ¦ground”: Ibid.
“There would beâ¦done that”: Ibid.
“There is aâ¦insult”: Author's interview with Max Brantley.
Though Hillary becameâ¦walking down the road: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 335; author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“They would constantlyâ¦each other”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 113.
“Send John Paulâ¦own”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 333.
“the Boy”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 135.
“Our organization wentâ¦entire staff”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 335.
“No! You don'tâ¦[to Washington]”: Ibid., p. 336.
“It was the goddamn money”: Ibid., p. 337.
“oddly elated”: Author's interview with Nancy Bekavac.
“We know howâ¦time”: Ibid.
“Sit down. We sit here”: Ibid.
“This is Australiaâ¦it's not me”: Ibid.
“She's the one thatâ¦they did”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“They're not wholeâ¦be doing”: Author's interview with Deborah Sale.
“I went into a funk”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 228.
“Well, Bill hasâ¦again”: Author's interview with Jim Blair.
“happier with Billâ¦right direction”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 70.
“Oh hellâ¦get divorced”: Author's interview with Jim Blair.
“Whether I
wanted
â¦want that”: Author's interview with Ann Henry.
“She wouldn't callâ¦disrupted”: Ibid.
“That's rightâ¦the marriage!”: Ibid.
“I had lostâ¦Arkansas”: Clinton,
My Life,
p. 236.
“wasn't Marsâ¦foolishness”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 344.
“All we everâ¦argue”: Ibid., p. 342.
“run Hillaryâ¦go”: Ibid.'
“He was surprisedâ¦he isn't”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“pray that it'sâ¦for me”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 119.
“Don't worryâ¦support you”: Ibid., p. 120.
“That's not to sayâ¦found her”: Author's interview with confidential source.
“Well, I boughtâ¦by myself”: Clinton, “Good Marriages Are More than a Piece of Paper,” p. 2.
“I really startedâ¦like her”: Author's interview with Betsey Wright.
“I think sheâ¦her heart”: Author's interview with Deborah Sale.
“holding handsâ¦in love”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 122.
“looking more at lifeâ¦itself”: Maraniss,
First in His Class,
p. 344.
“This will be fine”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 122.
“Who will giveâ¦Mr. Rodham”: Clinton,
Living History,
p. 75.
“It was likeâ¦district”: Author's interview with Ann Henry.
“Hillary Rodham will be your Waterloo”: Sheehy,
Hillary's Choice,
p. 122.
“a person in my own rightâ¦sacrificial wife”: Quote confirmed by Anne Henry. Appeared originally in Roger Morris,
Partners in Power,
p. 188.