"I was terrified about losing my identity and getting lost in the wake of Bill's force-of-nature personality," she said of the former president. "I actually turned him down twice when he asked me to marry him."

 

"That was a large part of the ambivalence² and the worry that I wouldn't necessarily know who I was or what I could do if I got married to someone who was going to chart a path that he was incredibly clear about. My ideas were much more inchoate³. I wasn't sure how to best harness my energies. So I was searching," she added.

 

Bill Clinton often recalls how he proposed twice, and how he initially⁴ felt that his future wife, who is again running for president, would be more suited for a life of public service.

 

"I once told her, 'I do want you to marry me, but you shouldn't do it,' and she said 'that's not a very good way to make a sale, what do you mean?'" he said in an interview with E! News. "I said well, 'I love you and you're endlessly interesting to me and we'll have a good life, but I think you're the most talented person of our generation for public service and what you should really do is go home to Illinois and run for office, or go to New York and practice law and run for office.'"

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