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"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Hillary Clinton asked at the EMILY's List gala earlier this month. Kris Connor/Getty Images hide caption

"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Hillary Clinton asked at the EMILY's List gala earlier this month.

At the end of the grueling 2008 primary fight, Hillary Clinton gathered supporters in Washington, D.C., and delivered perhaps the most memorable line of her whole campaign.

"Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it," Clinton said to roaring applause.

It's a line, one could say, that began paving the way for her seemingly inevitable 2016 campaign.

"And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time," she continued.

Prior to that final moment in her campaign, Clinton rarely talked about the glass ceiling. The calculus she'd have the women's vote locked up, but some of her campaign advisers were worried about alienating men.

In recent weeks, as she has assembled campaign advisers in New York and early primary states, Clinton has given a number of speeches to women's groups, pointing to a likely shift in tone from 2008 to 2016.

"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Clinton asked earlier this month with a glimmer in her eye at a gala for EMILY's List, an organization that works to elect Democratic women.

It's quite a contrast to 2008 when her standard response to questions about possibly becoming the first female president was, "But I am not running as a woman. I am running, because I believe I am the best qualified and experienced person."

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Hillary Clinton Is Ready To 'Stand Out' As A Female Candidate