num_pages: 266
description: From Cecile Richardsthe president of Planned Parenthood daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards featured speaker at the Womens March on Washington and the heroine of the resistance (Vogue)comes a story about learning to lead and make change based on a lifetime of fighting for womens rights and social justice.Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principals office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. Richards had an extraordinary girlhood in ultra-conservative Texas where her hell-raising parentsher civil rights attorney father and political activist mothertaught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards household the dinner table was never for eatingit was for sorting precinct lists.She watched her mother Ann transform herself from a housewife to a force in American politics who made a name for herself as the straight-talking truth-telling governor of Texas. But Richards also witnessed the pitfalls of public life that are unique to women and the constant struggle to protect and expand equal rightsboth exemplified by her marathon congressional testimony where she held her own against hostile questions for five hours.As a young woman Richards worked as a labor organizer alongside women earning a minimum wage and learned that those in power dont give it up without a fight. Now after years of advocacy resistance and progressive leadership she shares her story for the first timefrom the joy and heartbreak of activism to the challenges of raising kids having a life and making change all at the same time. She shines a light on the people and lessons that have gotten her through good times and bad and encourages readers to take risks make mistakes and make trouble along the way. Richards has dedicated her life to taking on injustice and her memoir will inspire readers to hope and action.
language: English
title: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
publisher: Gallery Books