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Article: Entering the combat zone. (Hillary Clinton, wife of presidential hopeful Bill Clinton) (Cover Story)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 30, 1992
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"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas," said Hillary Clinton, campaigning in a Chicago bakery, badgered by questions about fees from her husband's government to her law firm. "But what I decided to do was fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life." It was a statement that many will see as reeking with contempt for women who do not work outside the home. It is also out of line with Hillary Clinton's usual sensitivity to others. Since moving to Arkansas in 1974 from a comfortable Chicago suburb and seven years at Wellesley and Yale Law, she has been campaigning winningly for 18 years, paying respectful attention ...