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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

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Chelsea Clinton
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 27
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I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.
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I just kept thinking about what my mom [Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly when people have asked her similar questions, she's tough and she can take whatever people say about her.
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Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.
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As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants.
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My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
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When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.
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My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
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I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.
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I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.
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He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.
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I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
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I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
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