She realized this protection now might make her seem 'walled off', adding that women are 'seen through a different lens' then men

That was one of the moments Clinton realized she needed to control her emotions so she could focus on the test

The men said 'You don't need to be here, there's plenty else you can do'

Clinton revealed she was one of the few women in the room that day

It was as she sat in a large classroom, awaiting to take the admissions test that would allow her to attend law school, that Hillary Clinton learned to control her emotions.

The future Secretary of State would attend Yale Law School the next year, but on that day all she knew was this: a room full mostly of men were screaming at her.

'You don't need to be here,' they told her. 'There's plenty else you can do.'

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In a revealing Humans of New York interview, Hillary Clinton shared the moment men yelled at her as she prepared to take her law school admissions test

The future Secretary of State would attend Yale Law School the next year, but on that day the men tried to tell her that she didn't belong there, that she shouldn't take their spot

'It turned into a real "pile on"', Clinton said in her revealing interview with Humans of New York.

'One of them even said: "If you take my spot, I'll get drafted, and I'll go to Vietnam, and I'll die." And they weren't kidding around. It was intense. It got very personal.'

Clinton recalled noticing she was one of the few women in the room, remembered how nervous she already felt for the rest, how she 'wasn't sure how well I'd do'.

'But I couldn't respond,' she said of the men. 'I couldn't afford to get distracted because I didn't want to mess up the test.'

'So I just kept looking down, hoping that the proctor would walk in the room.'

Clinton knows both the press and public often perceive her to be 'aloof, or cold, or unemotional', she said.

On Wednesday the Democratic presidential candidate was criticized by GOP chairman Reince Priebus for not smiling enough during an NBC town hall.

'Hillary Clinton was angry + defensive the entire time,' Priebus wrote in the since deleted tweet. 'No smile and uncomfortable.'

But Clinton said she quickly learned as a young woman 'to control my emotions'.

'That's a hard path to walk,' she said. 'Because you need to protect yourself, you need to keep steady, but at the same time you don't want to seem "walled off"'.

Clinton said she quickly learned as a young woman 'to control my emotions' as a way to protect herself, but recognizes that same protection sometimes makes her seem 'walled off'

Clinton's interview with HONY, a blog by photographer Brandon Stanton, has already been shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook just five hours after being posted

'And sometimes I think I come across more in the "walled off" arena.'

'And if I create that perception, then I take responsibility. I don't view myself as cold or unemotional. And neither do my friends. And neither does my family.'

'But if that sometimes is the perception I create, then I can't blame people for thinking that.'

Clinton's interview with HONY, a blog by photographer Brandon Stanton that began with interview New Yorkers on the street, has already been shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook just five hours after being posted.

In a second post shared by the blog, Clinton opened up about how it is more difficult for a woman to carry herself with the kind of 'naturalness' attributed to Barack Obama or her husband Bill.

'I know how hard they work at being natural,' she said of the two men. 'It's not something they just dial in. They work and they practice what they're going to say.'

'It's hard work to present yourself in the best possible way. You have to communicate in a way that people say: "Okay, I get her.'"

'And that can be more difficult for a woman. Because who are your models? If you want to run for the Senate, or run for the Presidency, most of your role models are going to be men.'

Clinton (pictured Thursday) was criticized just a day before the HONY interview by the RNC chairman for not smiling as she talked about national security during an NBC town hall

'And what works for them won't work for you. Women are seen through a different lens. It's not bad. It's just a fact.'

Clinton said she learned that as she watched how men seemed to a lot certain emotional reactions behind the podium that she was not.

'I'll go to these events and there will be men speaking before me, and they'll be pounding the message, and screaming about how we need to win the election.'

'And people will love it. And I want to do the same thing. Because I care about this stuff.'

But Clinton soon realized she wasn't allotted the same time of outbursts.

'I've learned that I can't quite be so passionate in my presentation,' she said. 'I love to wave my arms, but apparently that's a little bit scary to people.'

'And I can't yell too much. It comes across as "too loud" or "too shrill" or "too this" or "too that"'.

'Which is funny, because I'm always convinced the front row are loving it.'

What was clear that people immediately loved her interview, and many women related to it - and even saw how they themselves had fallen into the same traps.

'Women all over the world know this as fact, all too much,' commented Michelle Jenkins on the post about the law school test.

'Be quiet, but not too quiet. Be smart, but not too smart... it goes on and on.'

'Watching the address last night I found myself taken back by her tone,' admitted Brittany Fletcher. 'About 10 minutes in I realized I was conditioned to feel that way.'