“This is a good example of the kind of messages I get sent day in and day out.” “I could read out a million examples. But, the bottom line is, there’s always either something sexual referenced or it’s the fact that I’m an idiot, I’m clueless, I have no understanding of policy, and that I feel entitled — stuff like that.” “This is a message I got from Tom. And the subject is, ‘Your Image Projection on TV.’” “So when I saw that, I was just furious because men that run for office — they have to go get a $20 haircut and a suit. And looking like what we expect women politicians to look like takes up so much of my time already, and it’s still not good enough.” “I’m a single mother to a 5 year old. I do take my son with me, which is a controversy sometimes. But I feel like as a black woman, too, they definitely ask, where is my child’s father? Is he involved? And it’s like, what does that have to do with whether or not I can get this ballot passed?” “The concerning thing that happened was just I had, in particular, one male delegate who I felt like really wanted to have a more personal relationship than I was comfortable with. And that ended up being a pretty significant problem in my campaign that I had to deal with.” “I didn’t see any of the sexist remarks or comments as out of the ordinary when running for office, which, in and of itself, is an issue. And it didn’t really hit me until I woke up one morning to thousands — tens of thousands — of pieces of anti-Semitic hate mail and death threats.” “The biggest thing that really hit home that made me decide to drop out of the race was when a friend of mine called from Germany. He worked for the German parliament and they monitor message boards that are basically Nazi and white supremacist. And he said that because my announcement had been on German national television, there were a lot of threats against my life.” “I think the reason women in politics get such a dark flavor of harassment is, I think, it really mirrors what your idea of women are and should be.” “And a lot of people say, ‘Well, you know, they just say that online.’ And I think, there has to be a portion of them that really believes that.” “And I think that so much of this is an attempt to get us, as women, as Jews, as young people, to silence ourselves.” “You have to create a new normal. And those of us who are kind of the front line, we tend to probably get a little bit more pushback.” “But it’s just going to take, I think, more of us powering through that discomfort to start to change the conversation.” “Of course, that also includes the insults that we may get and the online harassment, but I don’t want to just be somebody who’s online harassed, because I am also working to achieve results, and this could just be added to what I’m trying to do as an assemblywoman.” “That we are capable, that we can run, that we should run, that we will run.” “I hope the work I am doing and other women are doing — I hope it’s really going to normalize women in power for an entire generation of Americans.”