I was very moved near the end of her essay by these quotes from Hillary herself:

"For too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words."

and

"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when woman and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution. It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small. It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide along women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes. It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will."

and

"Women's rights are human rights. Among those rights are the right to speak freely--and the right to be heard."

That was Hillary Rodham Clinton defying the U.S. State Department and the Chinese Government at the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing (http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches /hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm).

And this voice, age 21, in "Commencement Remarks of Hillary D. Rodham, President of Wellesley College Government Association, Class of 1969."  http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/C ommencement/1969/053169hillary.html

"We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands. . . . searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living. . . . [for the] integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences. . . . Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it."

Robin Morgan, lifelong feminist and advocate for women, is supporting Hillary.  Here's why:

"Me? I support Hillary Rodham because she's the best qualified of all candidates running in both parties. I support her because her progressive politics are as strong as her proven ability to withstand what will be a massive right-wing assault in the general election. I support her because she knows how to get us out of Iraq. I support her because she's refreshingly thoughtful, and I'm bloodied from eight years of a jolly "uniter" with ejaculatory politics. I needn't agree with her on every point. I agree with the 97 percent of her positions that are identical with Obama's--and the few where hers are both more practical and to the left of his (like health care). I support her because she's already smashed the first-lady stereotype and made history as a fine senator, because I believe she will continue to make history not only as the first US woman president, but as a great US president.

As for the 'woman thing'?

Me, I'm voting for Hillary not because she's a woman--but because I am."

Until I read Ms. Morgan's essay, I had been distressed about the way this primary has gone, but inarticulate about it.  Truth is, I haven't been an active feminist in years.  This essay helped bring my distress into sharp focus.  Thank you, Robin Morgan, and thank you Hillary, for bringing me home.