--- title: Hillary Clinton Nomination: Parents, Daughters Watch Speech description: As Hillary Clinton declared victory on Tuesday, she connected the moment to generations of women in the United States and in her own family canonical: https://time.com/4361070/hillary-clinton-historic-nomination-daughters/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-08T12:30:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:05.154Z article:section: Politics og:title: Parents Let Daughters Stay Up to See Historic Clinton Speech og:description: Hillary Clinton connected the moment to past and future generations of women og:url: https://time.com/4361070/hillary-clinton-historic-nomination-daughters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307511ebdfb3e3b6/698896eafb4eac12d188dd58/hillary-clinton-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5472 og:image:height: 3078 og:image:alt: Clinton claims nomination as primaries near end og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Parents Let Daughters Stay Up to See Historic Clinton Speech twitter:description: Hillary Clinton connected the moment to past and future generations of women twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307511ebdfb3e3b6/698896eafb4eac12d188dd58/hillary-clinton-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Parents Across the Internet Let Daughters Stay Up to See Historic Clinton Speech > Sponsored content. 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Selcuk Acar—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 8, 2016 12:30 PM UTC As [Hillary Clinton declared victory](http://time.com/4360888/hillary-clinton-nomination-brooklyn-speech-win/) Tuesday night as the first female major-party nominee, she sought to [position the achievement within history](http://time.com/4360848/hillary-clinton-nomination-brooklyn-speech/?xid=homepage), connecting the moment to [generations of women](http://time.com/4360781/hillary-clinton-presidential-nomination-woman/) in the United States and in her own family. At the same time, parents across the country woke up their daughters—or delayed their bedtimes—to allow them to watch the speech, noting its historic nature. “Letting my 13-year-old daughter stay up for [@**HillaryClinton**](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton) tonight. Witnessing history > being particularly alert tomorrow,” one father [wrote](https://twitter.com/adambonin/status/740367288394735617) on Twitter. “Tonight’s victory is not about one person,” Clinton said in her speech. “It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.” She mentioned suffragists, and she spoke about four generations of women in her own family, including her mother—who was born on the day Congress gave women the right to vote—her daughter Chelsea and granddaughter Charlotte. Clinton nodded, specifically, to future generations. “To every little girl who dreams big: Yes, you can be anything you want—even president. Tonight is for you,” she [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740349871073398785) before taking the stage in Brooklyn. **Read more:** [Read Hillary Clinton’s Historic Victory Speech as Presumptive Democratic Nominee](http://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/) > [](https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/740369475346780160) > [](https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/740369373500706818) > [](https://twitter.com/thehighsign/status/740368696116453376) > [](https://twitter.com/kairyssdal/status/740368666999459841) > [](https://twitter.com/adambonin/status/740367288394735617) > [](https://twitter.com/PaulFidalgo/status/740369098895462401) > [](https://twitter.com/DawnC331/status/740369185524457472) > [](https://twitter.com/VocalicPage/status/740370377465954304) > [](https://twitter.com/jlucaspdx/status/740371334102847488) > [](https://twitter.com/kohenari/status/740373527283388416) > [](https://twitter.com/bobcorrigan/status/740370006416982016) > [](https://twitter.com/MileHighBrendan/status/740372902663462912) > [](https://twitter.com/AlanStewartCarl/status/740372354132365312) > [](https://twitter.com/tzappile/status/740374924120952833) > [](https://twitter.com/rachelsklar/status/740369741802541060) > [](https://twitter.com/dan%5Fbernstein/status/740362053110534144) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4361070/hillary-clinton-historic-nomination-daughters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4361070/hillary-clinton-historic-nomination-daughters/"},"headline":"Parents Across the Internet Let Daughters Stay Up to See Historic Clinton Speech","datePublished":"2016-06-08T12:30:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:05.154Z","description":"Hillary Clinton connected the moment to past and future generations of women","url":"https://time.com/4361070/hillary-clinton-historic-nomination-daughters/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307511ebdfb3e3b6/698896eafb4eac12d188dd58/hillary-clinton-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307511ebdfb3e3b6/698896eafb4eac12d188dd58/hillary-clinton-daughters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Clinton claims nomination as primaries near end","caption":"Clinton claims nomination as primaries near end","creditText":"Selcuk Acar—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4361070/hillary-clinton-historic-nomination-daughters/","name":"Parents Across the Internet Let Daughters Stay Up to See Historic Clinton Speech"}}]}] ```