‘We Can’t Unlearn the Lessons Cecile Richards Taught Us About Fighting, or Freedom’

glamour.com:

The first time I really sat down with , it was early in her tenure at Planned Parenthood, at a big round breakfast table in a midtown Manhattan restaurant.

I’d been told she was new to New York—though not, of course, new to the spotlight, as a longtime labor organizer and the daughter of iconic Texas governor Ann Richards—and didn’t know that many women in media.

Would I arrange a few editors to come meet her?I did, and by the time our plates were cleared, had two thoughts: (1) I would follow this woman into war, and (2) could we be friends??

Cecile was forthright, funny, a natural-born organizer, and seemingly unafraid. She went on to spend 12 years at Planned Parenthood, from 2006 to 2018, before leaving to launch multiple other and initiatives, and many of us at that table were lucky enough to become friends with her.