The newsletter, co-created by “Girls” co-showrunner Jenni Konner, also includes pieces entitled “Saying Yes to My Queer Wedding” and “Rumors I Heard About My Body: Is My Period Weird?” “You really do just sort of say, ‘OK, I think I know what it’s gonna be like, but I don’t know for sure”. Dunham and Konner were upfront about their fan-girl feelings for Clinton, which Dunham traces back to the third grade.
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When questioned about whether she’s a feminist, Hillary responded: “I’m always a little bit puzzled when any woman, of whatever age but particularly a young woman, says something like, ‘Well, I believe in equal rights, but I’m not a feminist.’ Well, a feminist is by definition someone who believes in equal rights!”
When Clinton responded to a question about how she’d handle the “fracture in race relations” that’s occurred in the wake of fatal police encounters in African-American communities, she clearly tried to appease both moderate and liberal voters.
Unlike most politicians’ wives throughout the history of America’s male-dominated democracy, Hillary Clinton came to her marriage with a successful and fast-advancing career of her own as an attorney, political activist and advocate for the rights of children. So I was searching.
Which is hilarious because if there’s one thing for which Clinton has never been feted, it’s her fashion sense. “And then I went to work for the impeachment staff that was investigating Richard Nixon”.
Clinton called those college and post-college years a “very formative but by no means a clear path” and talked about a long road trip she and her friends took to Alaska, where she worked as a salmon-gutter and “slimer”.
Clinton told a delighted Dunham the protest was to end “curfews and visiting hours by men”.
For her part, Clinton seemed to enjoy the flashback.
Indeed, such an admission isn’t one that Clinton gets to make often.
After taking a trip “down memory lane” that, oddly, didn’t include stops at Cattle Futures, Travelgate, White Water or Interns-R-Us, Dunham asked her about her campus activism, odd jobs in her ’20’s, thoughts on feminism, and what it was like marrying Bill.
And yet, Dunham is acutely aware of how hard it’s going to be to pull this off. Gwyneth Paltrow, for example, is mocked for running a successful business providing tips and resources to a well-heeled crowd – something completely ordinary were it not for her celebrity. He said, ‘What do you care?
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But she’s insists she’s still listening.
