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Clinton applies a one-size-fits-all pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps narrative to multiple women’s stories in a way that ranges from tedious to outrageous to suggest that Harriet Tubman’s story “could have ended there” if not for her persistence is to imply that people who were enslaved had individual responsibility to free themselves. There is an obvious flattening that occurs here: Winfrey’s persistence looked nothing like Bridges’s, or for that matter, Bly’s. This contemporary quote is an ill-considered retroactive framing device for a book about thirteen American women who lived during different times and under wildly different circumstances. Clinton notes in the dedication that she was “inspired by Senator Elizabeth Warren,” though Warren is not one of the book’s thirteen women who persisted. In 2018, it was adopted as the “theme” of Women’s History Month (which, you might argue, already has a theme). “Nevertheless, she persisted.” This became an immediate feminist rallying cry, and was printed on bags, posters, pins, and t-shirts. She was given an explanation,” McConnell said. This phrase, if you have managed to attain blissful amnesia about the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election, is drawn from something Mitch McConnell said about Elizabeth Warren, after the Senate voted to stop her from speaking during Jeff Sessions’s confirmation hearings. In case you managed to miss the message, it appears in bold, colorful letters in every woman’s story: “ She persisted. Oprah Winfrey persisted by rising from humble origins to media superstardom. Ruby Bridges persisted when she attended kindergarten despite threats on her life from segregationists. Sally Ride persisted to overcome stereotypes about women in STEM to travel to space. Nellie Bly, told by a male colleague that working women were a “monstrosity,” persisted to become a working woman anyway.
Helen Keller persisted, by learning to read and write. True to its subtitle, the book marches on through thirteen stories of women persisting. Instead, she persisted, escaping from slavery and becoming the most famous ‘conductor’ on the Underground Railroad,” begins the first section of Chelsea Clinton’s baffling 2017 children’s book, She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, illustrated by Alexandra Boiger. “H arriet Tubman was born a slave, and her story could have ended there.
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