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    Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:27 PM | By Bonnie Goldstein
    Hello Yasmine, welcome to the meeting. I appreciate Hillary and Chelsea’s close relationship, but I don’t find it that unusual among the women in my circle to have strong, impressive, female offspring. We didn’t simply raise our daughters to be participants in the world.  We conspired with them to take the world over. These young post-feminists were encouraged, applauded, educated, groomed and imbued with every opportunity we could offer, especially the ones their mothers missed out on. My adult daughter outpaced me years ago. I was a TV news producer for one of those ratings-driven network magazine shows that proliferated in the 1990s, and she, not long out of NYU, told me she wanted to make documentaries. I was flattered she wanted to follow in my shoes and offered at once to help her meet my colleagues. We were on the phone, but I could hear her eyes roll as she explained she wanted to make vérité features, not the correspondent-narrated consumer and medical alert pieces I labored over. A year or two later, she and another woman director had formed a production company and I, too tired for even one more “wheels up at 7 a.m.” breaking story, left the juggling act for more tranquil journalistic pursuits. Since then, I have watched the two women indefatigably create and innovate in a medium come into its own right along with them. The women of their generation are amazons but their mothers, Hillary included, are not at all surprised.
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