American - Politician | July 25, 1966 -
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.'
Christine Quinn
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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.
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I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and I think New Yorkers know that.
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I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
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When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.
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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.
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You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
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There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
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At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.
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We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
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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.
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I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
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