The best thing to know is what you don't know.

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.

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.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.