Her life, itself, is a perfect example of women's ability to succeed. She should quit talking about it and get on with economics, the budget and foreign policy.
I've got to say that she's losing me.
The contrast with Margaret Thatcher is revealing. Though she came to power at a time when women had fewer rights, she rarely (if ever) made an issue of her gender.
She talks about women-empowerment because she is a good example of it,and many people recognize that, and it helps situate her in a truer light than the Left has ever situated their exemplars of it:for that reason it doesn’t bother me at all, though, yes, at first, during the campaign 2 1/2 years ago, when she invoked the name Hillary Clinton and the “glass ceiling”, it was a little bewildering.
What she’s doing is giving back to the Left a small portion of something they may be right about, in exchange for asking for a recognition that normal, everyday women, with or without political ties, have been empowered when they will themselves to be empowered.
By accident or design, her instincts for how to bring people to her, and AWAY from the tired conceits of the Left,
are mind-bogglingly astute , instinctively right, and will only benefit ‘our side’.