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“I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.”
“I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.”
“I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.”
“I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.”
“I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.”
“I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.”
“My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.”
“Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.”
“Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.”
“I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'”
“Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.”
“I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.”
“I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.”
“New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.”
“I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.”
“I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.”
“I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.”
“People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.”
“Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.”
“I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.”