Hillary Clinton Writes New Epilogue for “Hard Choices”
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Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Ahead of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for president of the United States, she has penned a new epilogue for the paperback version of her memoir Hard Choices.
The epilogue, published in the Huffington Post on Friday, discusses Clinton’s last days as Secretary of State, her granddaughter Charlotte’s birth, her new life as a grandmother – and how her new role has changed her outlook on the future and encouraged her to speed up and get to work.
“Becoming a grandmother has made me think deeply about the responsibility we all share as stewards of the world we inherit and will one day pass on,” she writes. “Rather than make me want to slow down, it has spurred me to speed up.”
Clinton adds: “If the United States continues to lead the world in the years ahead, as I believe it can and must, it will be because we have learned how to define the terms of our interdependence to promote more cooperation and shared prosperity and less conflict and inequality….The United States and the other great democracies have to redouble our efforts to empower moderates and marginalize extremists everywhere, and to stand firmly and united in pursuit of a more just, free, and peaceful world. That’s the world I want for Charlotte and for all our kids.”
She concludes by discussing a “memory quilt” a woman sent her after Charlotte’s birth.
“In just a few months, Charlotte had already helped me see the world in new ways. There was so much more to do. So many more panels waiting to be filled in,” she writes. “I folded up the quilt and got back to work.”
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