“The women I knew during my divorced years in the 70s did not have degrees from Wellesley or Yale Law School nor were we partners in prestigious law firms. We had traded comfortable houses for dumpy apartments and the luxury of staying home for entry-level jobs when there was no such thing as “day-care centers” — all because we thought we had a better shot for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as single women rather than married women in bad marriages. Given the choice of staying with a lout for security or trying it on our own, we took a trembling chance on ourselves.

Hilllary didn’t take that terrifying step. With every advantage of brains, education, money, recognition, and public sympathy, she wagered that Bill Clinton rather than Hillary Rodham would get her where she wanted to go. It didn’t work.”

As coaches are fond of saying on ESPN, “Baby, if you’re going to talk the talk, you gotta’ walk the walk.” Hillary talks it but she didn’t walk it. She thought someone else could take her further than she could take herself. She did not grab the opportunity to teach her daughter that an honorable marriage and personal integrity are worth the risk of losing everything. Divorce isn’t pretty but neither is unbridled ambition or using a sham marriage for political gain, thinking no one will notice.