The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

I'm a problem-solver.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.