Maya Harris

Born :

1967

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

growing-up careers thinking

I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

choices jobs needs

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good c... by Maya Harris

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

childcare being-a-parent parent

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

who-you-are whole self

Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

issues dimensions people

I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and understand the urgency of issues. And to that extent, I think it is important how issues are talked about.

issues opportunity thinking

You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t

issues order people

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

light people needs

I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

appreciation order thinking

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

differences law school

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

helping world thinking

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

who-we-are would-be impossible

She took our hands and she said she'd been diagnosed with colon cancer, that was one of the worst days of my life, truly. But, you know, it is also, as, you know, and your family knows...