In short, Americans see Mrs Clinton for what she is: a laser-brained careerist, who met her future husband in the Yale law library and has propelled him, not always scrupulously, to the White House.

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Who ever coined the notion that women should stay home, make babies, cook dinner, play the role of June Cleaver and of course let the husband be the breadwinner in this current day should have taken a time train into the future by some 50 odd years.

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She met her future husband in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland in the mid-1950s and the pair created the five-minute TV sketch show Sam and Friends, a precursor to the Muppets that featured an early incarnation of Kermit.

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That may change in the future if he decides to complete a graduate degree, but my husband and I wiped our brows with a collective sigh of relief.

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After meeting her future husband in London, Jhabvala moved with him to his native India in the 1950s, where she was visited by Merchant and Ivory to ask if they could make a film of her 1960 novel The Householder.

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This was the case for Amanda Goldstein Marks, 35, who met her future husband Aaron in 1999 via Jewish dating site JDate.

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By this time she had appeared in the film Every Picture Tells a Story and also in an American mini-series Ellis Island, which coincidentally had her future husband Liam Neeson among the cast.

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