7. She loves adventure – and she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. After graduating from college in 1969, she worked her way across Alaska by washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez.
8. She was one of 27 women in a class of 235 at Yale Law.
9. Her reason for choosing Yale Law School over Harvard. The New York Times reports Hillary's anecdote about attending a cocktail party at Harvard Law School after she was admitted: “One of my friends said, ‘Professor So-and-So, this is Hillary Rodham, she’s trying to decide between us and our nearest competitor,'" Mrs. Clinton said. “And he looked down at me and he said, ‘Well, first, we don’t have a nearest competitor. And secondly, we don’t need any more women.”’
10. She tried to join the Marines in 1975, but was turned down. According to theNew York Times, a Marine recruiter told Hillary: "You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman."
11. She was the only woman on the Nixon impeachment legal team.
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