And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.
— Chelsea Clinton
My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.
That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.
It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.
People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'
When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.
I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad - frequently not my dad - and then one of us would play his opponent.
Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.
My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
I love living in New York.
At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.
I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
My father has always been such a doer.
My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.
A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.
There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.
Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.
Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.
I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.
I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.
We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.
Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.
I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.
My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.
When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
I never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. And I always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants for every child.
I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her daughter. I'm so grateful that she is Charlotte's and Aiden's grandmother. She makes me proud every single day.
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.
I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.
If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.
I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.
I walk my dog every morning.
I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.
Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.
I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
