Rachel Maddow Inspires Smith Graduates: “Do Not For the Fame, But For the Glory”
Guest post by Progressive Women’s Voices alumna Ileana Jimenez
Just moments before Maddow marched into Smith’s sun-splashed Quad with faculty and trustees, I spoke to Maddow about her thoughts on speaking at a women’s college whose mission is proudly feminist.
“I do feel that the core of the feminist experience is that women are expected to be full people independent of their gender, and that it really is about having the same high expectations of everybody in this kind of an environment,” she said. “I think the idea that nobody gets cut any slack because of who they are is just as liberal and feminist as the idea that everybody needs special dispensation. You better be a badass no matter what you’re doing.”
h/t @teacherileana
No one better to judge a badass than you Rachel! You are THE baddest badass, and I mean that in a good way. Now if you can just get Pat Buchanan off of every MFing show that airs on MSNBC I might be able to watch before 6:00 pm est. At least warn us so we view at our own peril, sort of like watching “The View” and hearing Elisabeth screech out her opinions. At least she’s only on for an hour, but with MSNBC almost no time is safe!!!
One of my new favorites:
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” – Adlai Stevenson