Posted on 10/08/2005 1:54:06 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Women's hall of fame honors Hillary Clinton, Maya Lin Saturday October 08, 2005 By BEN DOBBIN Associated Press Writer
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut.
Back came a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.
``It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl,'' recalled the letter writer, better known today as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The rejection stung her to the core, opening up the teenager's eyes to sexual stereotypes, career barriers and discriminatory practices that soon came under assault from landmark laws beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
``We have made so many advances in the last 40 years that are really unprecedented in the history of the world,'' said Clinton, one of 10 women inducted Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame.
``I don't think there has ever been a better time to be a woman than in the United States of America in the 21st century,'' she said in an interview. ``We have a broad scope of choices ... that really are defined by who we are and what we want as individuals and not constricted by the gender we were born into.''
Clinton, 57, the only first lady elected to the Senate, was enshrined along with Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell, who became the first female director of the National Science Foundation in 1998,
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Permanently.
Pow, to da moon.
they blasted the beast into space and the aliens stamped her return to sender.
I think she originated in space
Not that I doubt Hillary's veracity, but I would like to see that letter!
No, actually I thing they told her they already had enough monkeys.
Hillary's from Uranus alright.
It's not too late.
Back came a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.
Does this mean they were only recruiting 14 year old boys at the time?
So she wanted to be a Marine astronaut. All this time I thought she was acting macho just to pick up chicks.
I think, I have made my point. Who cares?
I just puked up something round, and brown, and fuzzy.
Oh, its my a$$hole!
I say to heck with conservative opposition to taxpayer funded space programs! Give Hillary command of her own ship and make Shiela Jackson Lee the Navigator.
R O T F L M A O
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
?:^)
Another lie like the time she wanted to enlist in the Marines.
We are now supposed to believe that the reason she didn't become an astronaut is that she was discriminated against. I am really sick of this pathological liar.
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