good reminder

from the cut’s interview with cecile richards:

My mom did not go to fancy schools, but she still became the governor of Texas in the early ’90s. She said “Cecile, this is the only life you get and there are no do-overs. You have to take every chance and every opportunity you get and just think what is the worst that can happen?” And that really has helped me a lot. Young women come to me and say ‘I’m thinking of applying for this,” and then they have a list of reasons why they are not qualified. I never, ever have had a man come to me thinking he’s not qualified. When I was asked to interview for this job at Planned Parenthood, I had a million reasons why I couldn’t do it. I thought about how I had never run anything this big and how I had never worked at the organization before. But as Mom would have said, “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” I did it, and here I am. Our regrets are about the things we never tried, or the times we took ourselves out of the running.