Chimamanda Adichie Interviews Hillary Clinton

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Chimamanda Adichie Questions Hilary Clinton’s Twitter Bio And This Is How The Ex-US First Lady Responded

Over the weekend, award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had the honor of interviewing Former First Lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton at the PEN World Voices Festival lecture.

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The author used the opportunity to ask the former presidential candidate why she primarily identified herself as Wife on her Twitter bio as opposed to her husband, Bill Clinton’s bio.

She asked;

“In your Twitter account, the first word that describes you is Wife and then I think it’s ‘Mom,’ and then it’s ‘Grandmother, when I saw that, I have to confess that I felt just a little bit upset.
And then I went and I looked at your husband’s Twitter account, and the first word was not ‘husband.’” (Bill Clinton’s Twitter bio leads with, ‘Founder, Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States,’ for interested parties.)

Adichie wanted to know if it was Clinton’s choice to first identify in relation to her husband, and if so, why.

Responding to the question Hillary said,

When you put it like that, I’m going to change it,” she laughed, before adding that women should be able to celebrate both their personal and professional achievements.

Hilary went on to quote the late Barbara Bush, who spoke at Wellesley in the early 1990s:

“At the end of the day, it won’t matter if you got a raise, it won’t matter if you wrote a great book if you are not also someone who values relationships.”

Clinton made it clear that your relationships matter more than the achievements you gain in life.

“It shouldn’t be either/or. It should be that if you are someone who is defining yourself by what you do and what you accomplish, and that is satisfying, then more power to you. That is how you should be thinking about your life, and living it,” she said.
“If you are someone who primarily defines your life in relationship to others, then more power to you, and live that life the way Barbara Bush lived that life, and how proud she was to do it.
“But I think most of us as women in today’s world end up in the middle. Wanting to have relationships, wanting to invest in them, nurture them, but also pursuing our own interests.”