Photos of the Day

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) and Spain's Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez at a press conference after their meeting at the State Department in Washington January 25, 2011. [Reuters Pictures]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) walks with Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa (left) on a one-day trip to Mexico through the streets of Guanajuato, January 24, 2011, prior to lunch at Teatro Juarez. [Getty Images]
Saudi talk show host Hiba Jamal (left) takes a picture of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) with Lebanese presenter Rania Barghut after recording a special episode of the Arabic ladies' talk show 'Kalam Nawaem' at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi on January 10, 2011, to be broadcast on the Saudi-owned MBC-1 satellite channel. [Getty Images]
When I was a little girl, I never saw images of women like this in the news. Even when I saw pictures of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, she was almost always the only woman in the picture. More often than not, Clinton is still the only woman in the picture, too, wearing her brightly colored suit in a sea of pinstriped charcoal. When I see pictures like these, they make me blub with joy.

I long for the day when they don't, because they are so routine as to be totally unremarkable.

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