Hard Choices? Meh. Hillary, for once, has taken the soft option. The title she joked about using for her memoirs The Scrunchie Chronicles, 112 Countries And It's Still All About The Hair would have been so much better. I mean, I'm sure Hard Choices is a great book and all I haven't read it, so if you're looking for a precis you're on the wrong article but The Scrunchie Chronicles is the book the world needs more.
And Hillary would have been the woman to write it. In 2001, giving the commencement speech at Yale, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton drew on her eight years as first lady to give the students the following life advice. "The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters," she said. "Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will." Alongside her trouser suits, Hillary's devotion to her scrunchie ponytail ties has been one of the most scrutinised aspect of her image in 22 years in the public eye. "Hillary in UN Hair Fail", read one headline during her tenure as secretary of state.
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