TED演讲【做勇敢的女孩】20160419.pdfVIP

So a few years ago, I did something really brave, or some would say really stupid. I ran for Congress. 几年前， 我做了一些非常勇敢的事， 或许有些人会说很愚蠢的事。 我参选国会议员. For years, I had existed safely behind the scenes in politics as a fundraiser, as an organizer, but in my heart, I always wanted to run. The sitting congresswoman had been in my district since 1992. She had never lost a race, and no one had really even run against her in a Democratic primary. But in my mind, this was my way to make a difference, to disrupt the status quo. The polls, however, told a very different story. My pollsters told me th