Don't cry, Hillary. No, seriously, don't. You probably already heard that Hillary Clinton cried at a campaign event (Globe), and it took Bostonist a while to process. When a woman in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, asked Clinton how she stayed so upbeat, Clinton started crying and said (among other things), "It's not easy. It's not easy. This is very personal for me. It is not just political. It is not just public. I see what's happening.......

Don't cry, Hillary. No, seriously, don't. You probably already heard that Hillary Clinton cried at a campaign event (Globe), and it took Bostonist a while to process. When a woman in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, asked Clinton how she stayed so upbeat, Clinton started crying and said (among other things), "It's not easy. It's not easy. This is very personal for me. It is not just political. It is not just public. I see what's happening.......

--Only one woman at MIT this year was granted tenure. Uh, you've come a long way, baby? [Boston Globe] --In better news for gender equality, Massachusetts ranks fifth when it comes to the number of women in powerful state government positions. Women make up almost half of Governor Deval Patrick's leadership team. [Boston Herald] --Seven people were injured in a house fire in Brockton yesterday afternoon, including former Brockton city councilor George Papas. [The Enterprise]......

There are quite a few author readings and events going on tonight around the city and there seems to be a bit of something for everyone. So why not Tivo that episode of "The O.C." (Bostonist knows it's one of your guilty pleasures) and introduce some literature into your night. If feminism, comedy, and just blatant, hilarious honesty, is your interest, head over to see Jill Soloway (pictured) in her "Tiny Ladies Extravaganza" at 8p.m.......

Camille Paglia is back, and just as verbose as ever. She'll be in town tonight promoting her new book Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems. Paglia burst onto the literary scene with her book Sexual Personae, which takes Western culture, post-modernism and almost everything else to task. Known for her iconoclastic ideas on higher education, gay culture, art, feminism, and politics, over the years she's managed to piss off......

Feminist in the way that if you’re a male you realize your propensity to get up and go first, to take the barbarian role assigned. Victorian in the way that you’re a gentleman and can step aside. Harvard President Lawrence Summers fell into a quagmire regarding feminist thought this week. Everyone seems to be talking about it. Summers has said to a variety of news sources and recounts of his speech include his preface......