Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton's life - struggles, failures, as well as achievements - is a retrospective mapping of women's lives in the last half of the 20th century. The facts might read as a tick-list of: "First woman to be . . ." but her progress is not about a single theme known as "Feminism". It's a bold, infinitely complex and as yet unfinished flow through some 60 years of breakneck change. Faced with the dismaying rise of flirty, dirty Sarah Palin, a woman who declares that all she ever needed to know was learnt on a basketball court, we cling to the idea of a woman of substance, whose eloquent life is making the impossible possible.

I can't say it any better than Helen Elliott, click the link and have a look for yourself.

I try to read the NZ Herald and Stuff everyday, yet for whatever reason you just can't read speech like this there.