Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It’s about helping people’s lives to work. Chirlane McCray Read Quote
Violence against women is a huge issue. A good feminist should be working on that – making the world a safer place for girls and women, wherever they live. Chirlane McCray Read Quote
We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can’t be segregated by class and race as we have been. Because even the women at the top can do something about violence against women, right? Chirlane McCray Read Quote
I’m a woman and a person of color; I know what it’s like out there in the workplace. Chirlane McCray Read Quote
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family. Chirlane McCray Read Quote
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I’ve had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life. Chirlane McCray Read Quote