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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Myself People Small
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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