Hillary Clinton didn't always want to be a politician — there was a time she wanted to be an astronaut, a teacher, a physicist, a journalist, and a lawyer. In fact, it took her a long time to finally jump into politics, as a new profile in Vogue notes, and it may have all come down to a pivotal moment in a high school gym:
One day at a town hall in Urbandale, Iowa, a 13-year-old girl gets up and asks Clinton when she first decided to run. Here she tells a story about how, when she was at the tail end of her tenure as first lady, she was encouraged to try for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's seat in the Senate. She resisted for months. And then one day, she went to an event in New York City honoring female athletes that was centered on a documentary called Dare to Compete. "I was at this high school," she says, "and the captain of this basketball team, a very impressive young woman, introduced me, and so I went up to the podium, and she was a lot taller than me, and she bent over and she said, 'Dare to compete, Mrs. Clinton. Dare to compete.' I went, 'Oh, my gosh.' I was just dumbfounded. Because I spent a lot of my time encouraging young women to really pursue their dreams, to go as far as they could, break the glass ceiling, and here was this young woman calling me out! And that's when I told myself, 'You better think seriously about this.'" [Vogue]
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