I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

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

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.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

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.

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.