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. ”

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. ”

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to. ”

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. ”

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

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn. ”

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes. ”

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. ”

My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard. ”

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City. ”