Sentences We Didn’t Finish

“When the audience of more than 300 began to clap and howl, Madeleine K. Albright entered the Georgetown University auditorium. She waved. She winked. The clapping grew louder, especially from young women in the room. They smiled giddily, checked to make sure their phones were on silent and opened their notebooks. Theirs was the generation of ‘The Future Is Female’ T-shirts and Ruth Bader Ginsburg tote bags, who grew up being told that women can be anything, and then, just as they were getting their starts in the working world, watched Hillary Clinton’s defeat. Now, they had come to see a woman . . . ” (“How a veteran diplomat got turned into a girl-power icon,” Washington Post, April 20).