Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admitted that “there have been a few times this past week when all I wanted to do was to curl up with a good book and never leave the house again”, IB Times reported.

Making her first public appearance at the Children's Defense Fund's 26th annual Beat the Odds Celebration in Washington  after her concession speech following her surprise loss a week ago, she also admitted that she was extremely disappointed with the election results, like many Americans, but that the campaign was never about one person or one election.

Clinton noted that getting out of the house and attending the event was not the easiest thing to do but emphasized that five young men and women never gave up in spite of the fact that they had to face violence and poverty.