Chelsea Clinton
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.Collection: Positive
My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Parenting
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.Collection: Mom
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 father has always been such a doer.
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.
Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.
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.
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.'
I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.
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'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
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.
I love living in New York.
I walk my dog every morning.
My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.
My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.
I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.
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.
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 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.
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.
If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
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.
People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'
I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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.
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.