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Sun Oct 29, 2017, 11:43 AM Oct 2017

Hillary Clintons Full Speech Accepting the Wonder Woman Award--on her Birthday...

The RW will continue to puke on her but she is a strong, intelligent women who can shame them with just a look!!


https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/10/hillary-clinton-wonder-woman-award



Read Hillary Clinton’s Full Speech Accepting the Wonder Woman Award
The former secretary of state was honored at the Women’s Media Center in New York on Thursday, her birthday.



https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/10/hillary-clinton-wonder-woman-award

by Benjamin Lindsay

October 27, 2017 9:43 am
Women's Media Center 2017 Women's Media Awards - Inside



https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/59f335758f85857e9bf6086b/master/w_1580,c_limit/GettyImages-866842528.jpg
Hillary Rodham Clinton accepts the WMC Wonder Woman Award onstage at the Women's Media Center 2017 Women's Media Awards at Capitale on October 26, 2017 in New York City.
By Cindy Ord/Getty



On her 70th birthday, Hillary Clinton was an honoree at the Women’s Media Awards, becoming the organization’s inaugural recipient of their Wonder Woman Award—and who better to fit the bill? As Women’s Media Center co-founder Jane Fonda said in her opening remarks, Clinton has for years been changing lives and ensuring that women’s rights are human rights and vice versa.



“Over the years, I’ve watched Hillary break glass ceilings and champion women and girls and fight for human rights domestically and internationally by [leading with] compassion and passion and dedication,” Fonda said.
“She has accomplished so much, all in the face of extremely toxic masculinity. She gets down, but she bounces right back, and that’s never been more true than right now when the person least qualified in history to be president of the United States is president.”............................................

...........................You know, nearly 50 years ago, Robin Morgan reminded us that sisterhood is powerful. I’ve seen that in my own life with so many friends and supporters, colleagues, comrades who have stood with me in good times and difficult ones, and that’s really what the center is trying to do: build a global sisterhood of women and men who are looking out for each other, lifting each other up, and telling those stories.

So I’m very grateful for this award. And I thank you for the work that the Center does and that you are supporting. And I also just want to end with this: thank you for refusing to grow weary or be silenced. Look, I fought to be here, and I knew there were a lot of folks telling me to just shut up and sit down and never say another word, and I thought to myself, well, what is it they’re so afraid of hearing? But I don’t intend to be silenced, and I know none of you do either. The world has never needed your voices more, never needed the vision of fairness and quality and opportunity that the Center represents more than it ever has today.....................

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