History was made at the Democratic National Convention this past week. Hillary Clinton, as the first female presidential candidate of a major U.S. party, is officially embarking an unprecedented American political campaign.
We asked women — as young as 4 and as old 77 — how much the weight of history factored into their decision. Listen:
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LaVon Bracy, 67, of Florida
![LaVon Bracy says she can now honestly tell her granddaughters that they can be president of the United States.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e9cda4a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5471x3644+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Fgettyimages-580025328_custom-bbececd2c8d77ec927e9a851ef617ec4e8bdb9cf.jpg)
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Karla Stoebis, 33, of Wisconsin
Carmen Guzman, 54, Virginia via Oaxaca, Mexico
![Carmen Guzman of McLean, Va., and originally from Oaxaca, Mexico on the final day of the Democratic National Convention.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8c3918f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2381x1573+0+0/resize/880x581!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Frnc-police-flagburning-21-of-30-_custom-c82a39149e81af4980a31442a9359d8f0dda4a02.jpg)
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Kathryn Hensley, 77, of South Carolina
![Katherine Hensley says a female presidential candidate has been "a dream."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/853e998/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2963x1909+0+0/resize/880x567!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Frnc-police-flagburning-13-of-30-_custom-f28c0f897c62dc5e26debecb0198950787650518.jpg)
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Deborah Langhoff, 69, of Louisiana
![Debroah Langhoff says that her mother was born at a time when women didn't have the right to vote and that she would be lying if she said history didn't play a role in her decision to back Clinton.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/034a77a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1982+0+0/resize/880x581!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Frnc-police-flagburning-10-of-30-_custom-3a2ae9184fc96392846303dca239da2d67c445c0.jpg)
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Loretta Talbott, 9, of Maryland
![Loretta Talbott says Clinton's nomination proves women are just as powerful as men.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1248911/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1951+0+0/resize/880x572!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Frnc-police-flagburning--28-of-30-edit_custom-ce9de1ee1a4e55a0b149d7007132af4cb5584a2f.jpg)
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Diana Hatsis-Neuhoff, 54, of Florida
![Diana Hatsis-Neuhoff says her decision to now support Clinton had "nothing to do with what was between my legs."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/cb066e7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1998+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Frnc-police-flagburning-17-of-30-_custom-5e76e24c5619513534d9236928bdf214773c38ee.jpg)
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Dawn Smalls, 38, and her daughter Eva, 4, of New York
![Eva Smalls with her mother Dawn Smalls (not pictured) says she likes Clinton because "she's a girl."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/dc8994c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1998+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F07%2F29%2Frnc-police-flagburning-30-of-30-_custom-b8fc9134dc38b687f096d671d2a4bc272a24e0d9.jpg)
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