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An Old Lady Says You’re Going To Hell If You’re A Woman And You Don’t Support Another Old Woman

Hank Berrien

On Saturday, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 78, who was nominated to the post by former President Bill Clinton in 1996, used her worn-to-the-bone phrase to stump for Hillary Clinton, telling a New Hampshire crowd, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”

Albright has used the phrase numerous times over the years, as New York Magazine has noted; blurting the phrase at a Wellesley panel in 2004, prompting cheers, repeating it at an WNBA luncheon in 2006, and tripling down in Time magazine in 2008.

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