The important thing for women to know is, you can be who you are and run for office. Women need to see themselves as good candidates, whose life experience matters, and understand that there are multiple ways that people enter public life.
We make progress only when people are willing to speak about what their lives are like and what they care about. We make it possible for others to understand our perspective.
Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.
We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free to make the same decisions that men are free to make with regard to health care and whether and when to have a family. It's going to be increasingly important for women to speak up not only about being able to make our own decisions, but also about the importance of being trusted to make our own decisions.
I do [believe climate change is man-made].
I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.
I have the endorsement of the Sierra Club, and I'm very proud of that.
