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Hillary Clinton, addressing women at a conference on developing a new generation of female leaders, made no mention of any political plans, but urged them: 'Dare to compete.'

Hillary Clinton has now finished her memoir of her time as President Obamas secretary of State. Thats what she said Wednesday at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, in any case.

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I literally just turned in my book, Ms. Clinton told the conference crowd.

Thats fairly fast writing. She resigned from the Foggy Bottom post on February 1, 2013. Clinton probably kept a detailed daily diary and undoubtedly had the help of aides to some unknown extent, but shes also been giving lots of speeches and traveling the world for the Clinton Foundation. In that context a year or so to write a complicated memoir about running US diplomacy is moving quickly. There are people whove had that job who would still be polishing Chapter Two.

Of course she had to work quickly given that publisher Simon & Schuster says the book, titled Hard Choices, will be available beginning June 10. She has to earn that reported $14 million advance, after all.

Clinton did not say anything new in regard to her post-book political plans at the Simmons event, which focuses on the development of a new generation of female leaders. But she did tell attendees that as you leave this conference I hope you think about the ways you can dare to compete, according to the official conference Twitter feed.

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