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From Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls: Future Paralympian Kelly Allen:
In my opinion, everyone has disabilities in life — mine is just a little more obvious.
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Did you know… that Hillary Clinton once tried to join the Marines?
From the NYT, 1994
Speaking at a lunch on Capitol Hill honoring military women, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she once visited a recruiting office in Arkansas to inquire about joining the Marines.
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She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. ‘Not Very Encouraging’
“You’re too old, you can’t see and you’re a woman,” Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. “Maybe the dogs would take you,” she recalled the recruiter saying.
“It was not a very encouraging conversation,” she said. “I decided maybe I’ll look for another way to serve my country.”
Forty years after abortion was legalized in the United States, access to care is getting more difficult for U.S. women. The Guttmacher Institute reports that 35 percent of U.S. women live in counties with no abortion services. This stands in contrast to countries such as Nepal, where Ipas and other partners have worked with the government since 2002 to ensure that services are expanding.
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Cervix-a-Lot? Genius.
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1/25 best Roseanne scenes → Nightmare on Oak Street
Roseanne Conner: These are a girl’s things, Darlene, as long as a girl is using them.
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Meryl Streep recounts a story that her friend, Irish activist Inez McCormack, had told about trying to explain the concept of inalienable rights to a group of impoverished Irish women.
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