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

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Christine Quinn

One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.

Christine Quinn

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.

Christine Quinn

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

Christine Quinn

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.

Christine Quinn

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

Christine Quinn

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

Christine Quinn

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

Christine Quinn

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Christine Quinn

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

Christine Quinn

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

Christine Quinn

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

Christine Quinn

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

Christine Quinn

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

Christine Quinn

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.'

Christine Quinn

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

Christine Quinn

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

Christine Quinn

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

Christine Quinn

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Christine Quinn

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.

Christine Quinn

Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

Christine Quinn

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.

Christine Quinn

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.

Christine Quinn

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

Christine Quinn

I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

Christine Quinn

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.

Christine Quinn

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

Christine Quinn

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

Christine Quinn

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

Christine Quinn

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.

Christine Quinn