When Hillary Clinton dropped out of the Democratic primary in 2008, she said during her concession speach : "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time," Eight years later, at th e Democratic National Convention, she was named as the first female presidential nominee of a major political party in the US. In her keynote speach she mentioned: " Tonight, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come. I’m happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. I’m happy for boys and men—because when any barr...