Christine Quinn Quotes & Sayings

“If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.”

“I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.”

“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.”

“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.”

“Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.”

“We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.”

“When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.”

“I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.”

“I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.”

“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.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.”