In a rousing speech yesterday about improving the future of women across the globe, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave no hint of plans for her own personal future. But that didn’t mean everyone in the audience wasn’t thinking about it.
“Of course, the big question now about Hillary is what’s next,” jibed Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, as she introduced the former secretary of state and possible 2016 presidential candidate to the annual Women in the World summit. The crowd at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater responded with cheers.
Two months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton re-emerged this week with two major speeches — one Tuesday in Washington and yesterday’s address to the high-profile women’s conference, also attended by such celebrities as Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey.
The speeches coincided with the announcement Thursday of her planned memoir about her years as secretary of state.
But rather than speak of her career, Clinton addressed the subject that she talks about each year at this summit — the state of women’s rights.
She concluded with her famous rallying cry: “Let’s keep telling the world over and over again that, yes, women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights, once and for all.”