“a very strange…ideas”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
“the one word…distrusted?”: Ibid.
“that mutuality of…for people”: Ibid.
“In many ways…as mine”: Clinton, Living History, p. 40.
“My entrance into…bygone age”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
Chapter 3: Love and War at Yale
“both passionately share…each other”: Connie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“sharing of values…of them”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.
“Hillary was interested…change most of the world”: Ibid.
“ultimately Hillary…1970s”: Ibid.
“The political…married him”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“In fact…to run”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“with Bill…zeal”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“Well, first…any more women”: Clinton, Living History, p. 38.
“We were awed…our class”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 248.
“knew she wanted…recognition”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“You had an…impressive”: Author’s interview with Peter Edelman.
“was at war with its own people”: Clinton, Living History, p. 44.
“This, the first issue…problems”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 28.
“for too long…possible”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
“were not…of people”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 28
“the grim Connecticut…ghetto”: Ibid., p. 30.
“University and the…Campus”: Ibid., p. 32.
“Lawyers and Revolutionaries…Justice”: Ibid.
“I personally…in U.S.”: Ibid., p. 30.
“Come to New…Day”: Ibid., p. 31.
“All power to…peace”: Ibid.
“far more…to the left”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 92.
“There was a…young woman”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 78.
“Burn Yale…police state tactics”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 31.
“the largest assemblage…witnessed”: Yale Daily News, May 2, 1970.
“illegal and unconstitutional”: Clinton, Living History, p. 46.
“not disruption or ‘revolution’”: Ibid.
“the unconscionable expansion…waged”: Ibid.
“Here we are…run us?”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 95.
“You really…for them”: www.womenshistory.about.com.
“starving, hungry…a person”: Mission of the Children’s Defense Fund Action Counsel.
“Of course”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 96.
“Women administer…politics”: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_Woman_Both_Houses.htm.
“I always liked…done”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 96.
“a personal turning point”: Carole Bass, “Rights of Passage,” Connecticut Law Tribune, October 12, 1992.
“I began to…play”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 98.
“a more suitable family”: Clinton, Living History, p. 49.
“child citizens”: Clinton, “Children Under the Law,” Harvard Educational Review, 1974.
“believes that twelve…slavery”: Patrick Buchanan, Speech, Republican National Convention, Houston, August 17, 1992.
“one of the…decades”: Garry Wills, “H. R. Clinton’s Case,” The New York Review of Books, Vol. 30, No. 5 (March 5, 1992).
“I want to…children”: Clinton, “Children Under the Law.”
“Falling in…. Clinton”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 76.'
“was the wild…existence”: Ibid., p. 83
“He was the…of me”: Ibid., p. 76.
“I was afraid of us”: Ibid.
“It is always…voice”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 232.
“I’d never seen…on me”: Author’s interview with Nancy Bekavac.
“While law school…a while”: Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 181.
“One day…woman”: Ibid.
“And Hillary came…didn’t take”: Author’s interview with Robert Reich.
“looking more…scholar”: Clinton, Living History, p. 52.
“little by little…acquaintance”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 100.
“politely excused myself”: Ibid.
“chicken coop”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 71.
“went for a long walk…your friends”: Clinton, Living History, p. 53.
“was much more…suggest”: Ibid.
“I remember begin…was going”: Author’s interview with Nancy Bekavac.
“They were very…Bill!”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 247.
“he cared deeply…disconnected”: Ibid.
“My response…charming”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.
“looked like a hippie”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 248.
“Their values are…quick”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.
“I just liked…thing”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“The Bill Clinton…the tactician”: Gergen, Eyewitness to Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 297.
“He can astonish…surgeon”: Clinton, Living History, p. 53.
“The reason she…McCarthy era”: Author’s interview with Robert Treuhaft.
“two were…communists”: Ibid.
“All I can…wasn’t”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 33.
“at Treuhaft…California”: Clinton, Living History, p. 54.'
“fierceness…the room”: Author’s interview with Stan Greenberg.
“she has a…he has”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
“But is that…someone?”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 263.
“Hillary was…Mockingbird”: Ibid., p. 264.
“We were…high-mindedness”: Author’s interview with Sara Ehrman.
“Fearless”: Ibid.
“I’d call it…her side”: Ibid.
“Bill Clinton tapped…she’s free”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 85.
“You really saved our relationship”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 277.
“more focused…questions”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 114.
“Bill and I talked…to Bill”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 277.
“women were…force”: Ibid.
“It was a nascent…world”: Ibid.
Chapter 4: Making Arkansas Home
“There are…infidelity”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“I never doubted…friends”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Good Marriages Are More Than a Piece of Paper,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, October 8, 1995, p. 2.
“Yankee”: Clinton, Living History, p. 63.
“What are you…Oh, you know…her here”: Author’s interview with Max Brantley.
“When I learned…something”: Ibid.
“the perfect place to live”: Clinton, My Life, p. 202.
Clinton had always…for them: Clinton, My Life, p. 202.
“would be a high-wire operation”: Ibid., p. 209.
“head and…more experience”: Ibid.
“disapproved of what…Little Rock”: Ibid., p. 211.
“you have to…small pond”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 316.
“besotted…light up”: Ibid., p. 313.
“come in some…someday’”: Ibid.
“You don’t understand…It’s not”: Author’s interview with Bernard Nussbaum.
“She started calling…to fill”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 319.
“I was very…women”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“about broke down…miserable”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 321.
“There were girls…our lives”: Autho
r’s interview with Betsey Wright.
In Washington…their work”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 312.
“Hillary came dressed…Arkansas”: Ibid., p. 317.
“She didn’t care…great time”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 125.
“Well, how long…you out”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 319.
“Clinton for Congress”: Ibid., p. 320.
“the Yankees in the Cadillac”: Ibid.
“least [because]…wanted”: Norman King, Hillary: Her True Story (New York: Carol, 1993), p. 46.
“But you know…not to”: Martha Sherrill, “The Rising Lawyer’s Detour to Arkansas: At Wellesley, She Found Her Calling; At Yale, She Met Her Future,” Washington Post, January 12, 1993.
“chiefs”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 307.
“evil”: Maraniss, Ibid., p. 310.
“With the unexpected…a chance”: Clinton, Living History, p. 69.
“brilliant and dazzling”: Author’s interview with Sara Ehrman.
“You are crazy”: King, Hillary: Her True Story, p. 53.
“at sea about…to be”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 316.
“Why on earth…future?”: Clinton, Living History, p. 69.
“Are you sure…no…anyway”: Ibid., p. 63.
“My friends and…. as well”: Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 136.
“I was just appalled”: Ibid., p. 137.
“He’s not home…camping”: Clinton, Living History, p. 71.
“She was moving…twenty”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.
“All business”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 328.
“If you were…laid-back”: Author’s interview with Woody Bassett.
“unusual ability…. bottom line”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 328.
“We walked over…impressed me”: Author’s interview with Diane Blair.
“somebody like me…the smallest…We both…dress code”: Ibid.
“We’d go out…ground”: Ibid.
“There would be…done that”: Ibid.
“There is a…insult”: Author’s interview with Max Brantley.
Though Hillary became…walking down the road: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 335; author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“They would constantly…each other”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 113.
“Send John Paul…own”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 333.
“the Boy”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 135.
“Our organization went…entire staff”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 335.
“No! You don’t…[to Washington]”: Ibid., p. 336.
“It was the goddamn money”: Ibid., p. 337.
“oddly elated”: Author’s interview with Nancy Bekavac.
“We know how…time”: Ibid.
“Sit down. We sit here”: Ibid.
“This is Australia…it’s not me”: Ibid.
“She’s the one that…they did”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“They’re not whole…be doing”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.
“I went into a funk”: Clinton, My Life, p. 228.
“Well, Bill has…again”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.
“happier with Bill…right direction”: Clinton, Living History, p. 70.
“Oh hell…get divorced”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.
“Whether I wanted…want that”: Author’s interview with Ann Henry.
“She wouldn’t call…disrupted”: Ibid.
“That’s right…the marriage!”: Ibid.
“I had lost…Arkansas”: Clinton, My Life, p. 236.
“wasn’t Mars…foolishness”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 344.
“All we ever…argue”: Ibid., p. 342.
“run Hillary…go”: Ibid.'
“He was surprised…he isn’t”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“pray that it’s…for me”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 119.
“Don’t worry…support you”: Ibid., p. 120.
“That’s not to say…found her”: Author’s interview with confidential source.
“Well, I bought…by myself”: Clinton, “Good Marriages Are More than a Piece of Paper,” p. 2.
“I really started…like her”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“I think she…her heart”: Author’s interview with Deborah Sale.
“holding hands…in love”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 122.
“looking more at life…itself”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 344.
“This will be fine”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 122.
“Who will give…Mr. Rodham”: Clinton, Living History, p. 75.
“It was like…district”: Author’s interview with Ann Henry.
“Hillary Rodham will be your Waterloo”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 122.
“a person in my own right…sacrificial wife”: Quote confirmed by Anne Henry. Appeared originally in Roger Morris, Partners in Power, p. 188.
“significantly improve the…Arkansas”: Ernest Dumas, The Clintons of Arkansas(Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993).
“minimum prison sentences…office”: Ibid., p. 10.
“fair utility…privacy”: Ibid., p. 9.
“Character, Competence, and Concern”: Ibid.
“she was to…to women”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“a pilgrimage”: Clinton, Living History, p. 77.
“slipped into…water”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.
“an insulated big town…careers”: Webb Hubbell, Friends in High Places (New York: William Morrow, 1997), p. 49.
“she not only…here”: Author’s interview with Woody Bassett.
“She could recite…absorbed it”: Author’s interview with Richard Stearns.
“It was Hillary…doesn’t care”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“[Vince] came back…for a job”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 46.
“How will we…pregnant?”: Ibid., p. 50.
The atmosphere…made her more attractive: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 81.
“At first, she…about her”: Ibid..
“She was on…all day”: Ibid.
“Hillary won their…like them”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 4.
“In our morning…to others”: Ibid., p. 53.
“But if she…to shreds”: Ibid., p. 64.
“The real secret…either”: Ibid., p. 65
“rat’s ass”: Clinton, Living History, p. 80.
“amazingly nervous”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 60.
In December, a month…of the restaurant: Clinton, My Life, p. 246.
“get on board early”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 351.
“our prevailing acquisitive corporate life”: Clinton, Wellesley College Commencement Speech.
Even before Hillary…talked politics: James B. Stewart, Blood Sport, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 69.
“best person”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 370.
“I made my…trader”: Author’s interview with Jim Blair.
“I was watching…going on”: Ibid.
“I thought I…unreal”: Ibid.
Finally, Hillary got…through Smith: Stewart, Bloodsport, p. 84; author’s interview with Jim Blair.
“that all you…nation” Clinton, My Life, p. 255.
“A short trip…graveyard”: Ibid.
“I’d like to be…Washington”: Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office (Los Angeles: Renaissance, 1999), p. 46.
“She had a…politics”: Author’s interview with Dick Morris.
Morris perceived…accomplishments”: Dick Morris, Rewriting History (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 73.
“She has much…defensive”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”:
“She did not do…speeches”: Ibid.
“People thought…name”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 81.
Despite the name issue…for only two days: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 356.
Frank Lady…maiden name: Clinton, My Life, p. 255.
“the ArkoRomans”: Ibid., p. 73.
“Talk about the…ERA!”: Clinton, My Life, p. 257
“Okay…noted later: Ibid.
“the 31-year-old…politics”: Howell Raines, “New Faces in Southern Politics: Women, Young and ‘Outsiders,’” New York Times, July 3, 1978, p. 4.
“be perceived…backward”: Ibid.
“Diamonds and Denim”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 118.
“The whole theme…sophisticated”: Ibid.
“Our vote was…state”: Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, p. 89.
“among the most…my life”: Clinton, Living History, p. 82.
“Hillary was very…wife”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“She thought…speak”: Ibid.
“no concessions to…distant”: Ruth Marcus, “Now, ‘A Different Kind of First Lady,’” Washington Post, January 20, 1993, p. 20.
“she didn’t want…irritant”: Author’s interview with Betsey Wright.
“For as long as I…help them”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 359.
“He was left…it all”: Ibid., p. 439.
“Think about who…stage”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 133.
“Bill was like a…advantage”: Bruck, “Hillary the Pol.”
“appearances were more…on”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 425.
“a quiet humiliation” Author’s interview with confidential source.
“I don’t think…child”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 132.
Since very early…in Bermuda: Clinton, My Life, p. 272.
He would have discovered…getting pregnant”: The description and footnote is taken directly from http://medpics.findlaw.com.
“Think of a baby…tight”: Clinton; It Takes a Village, p. 8.
Fifteen minutes…Bill to hold: Clinton, My Life, p. 273.
“I never wanted…end”: Ibid.'
“designated worrier”: “Clinton at Yale,” New York Times, October 14, 2001, p. 7.
“mystified”: Clinton, Living History, p. 85.
“Chelsea, this…we can”: Ibid.
“We may…wise”: Maraniss, First in His Class, p. 375.
“The feminist I…heroic”: Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, p. 133.
“had assumed…baby’”: Hubbell, Friends in High Places, p. 78.
“Hillary began…due to her”: Ibid., p. 79.
“I must say…election”: Walter Isaacson, “‘We’re Hoping That We Have Another Child,’” Time, June 3, 1996.