I’ve been looking forward to the debates all election season and even let the kids stay up til 10 to watch. I’m glad I did, too, and not just because they fell asleep the minute we marched upstairs.
I want them to remember this moment in history.
“I like the woman,” Little A said early in the night.
“That’s Hillary,” Big A told her. “I like her too.”
I’m happy you do, my sweet A’s. Hillary is resilient, hard-working, ambitious, self-made, successful, strategic, and incredibly smart. She is a boss bitch, and I believe all women should aspire to boss bitchdom.
Aspire to be President of the United States of America one day. It makes me proud to live in a time when you can set that kind of goal.
One of my favorite fantasies is my time machine one—where I’m the hot, bedazzled Queen of Studio 54, shimmering under the disco ball and inventing the dance moves of the future—but then I remember, no, that was a shitty period for most women; that 2016 is actually the best possible time for our gender, where opportunities abound, and girls can run the world, Beyoncé style.
The night before Leymah Gbowee won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to lead the women’s protests that toppled Liberia’s dictator, she was asked how American women could help those who experienced the horrors and mass rapes of war. Her response: “More women in power.”
This is the Golden Age of the Boss Bitch, and Hillary is proof.