Alicia Menendez Quotes
born 1983 United States
- United States
- Non-fiction authors
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I know the enormous joy of feeling that your life has been dedicated to helping others, and also the enormous frustration of public life.
But the truth is that without my gringa mother, I might not be as proud to be Latina as I am today.
Be ambitious, be wildly ambitious, because if you constantly run up against people who are telling you ‘no,’ ambition is the only thing that motors you through.
You can’t have a private life as an elected official. It’s not a family-friendly institution.
I think what makes that extra complicated is that we're living in a moment where we're told that great leaders are authentic leaders.
Women and girls across cultures are socialized to care what other people think about them.
“I am constantly inspired by immigrants—many of whom have taken tremendous risks in pursuit of a better life.”
Where it becomes a challenge is that thinking about other people often becomes overthinking about other people and modulating our true selves.
It's one thing to give someone counsel, it is another thing to open doors to introduce them to people, to connect them with opportunities. That is what it is going to take to help us catapult forward.
When your close loved one is at the center of a political scandal, it’s in your obit too.
“Fifteen years ago I wish I’d focused less on selling myself and more on deciding whether or not I wanted to invest in others.”
Those interpersonal relationships are more important than any public measure of success.
It’s easiest to imagine my non-Hispanic white mother’s role in my Latina identity as the “absence of.”
My thought was that I would speak to women who don't give a damn and that they would be off living their best lives.
“Ten years ago I wish I would have understood that you can’t force your moment.”
It sets us up to feel as though if we don’t succeed, it is our own fault.
What we need to do is use our collective energy to push back on this.
What I can tell you for sure is that women who don’t care were just out there living their best lives, marching to the beat of their own drummers.
Society holds people who are affiliated with this university to a high but often unattainable standard. Harvard is not perfect, people who go to Harvard are not perfect, but there is worth in the imperfection.
Instead of focusing on what women can do for themselves, I’m focusing on what we can all do to push back against these larger questions of what makes someone less likeable.