Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story

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To Make Change, You Have to Make Trouble

From Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of The united states and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and a “heroine of the resistance” (Vogue)—comes a story about learning to lead and make change, in accordance with an entire life of fighting for women’s rights and social justice.

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she used to be taken to the principal’s place of job in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. Richards had an strange childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards household, the “dinner table used to be never for eating—it used to be for sorting precinct lists.”

From the time Richards used to be a girl, she had a front-row seat to observe the upward thrust of women in American politics. She watched her mother, Ann, develop into from a housewife to an electrifying force in the Democratic party 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. Her experiences paint a powerful portrait of the misogyny, sexism, fake news, and even the specter of violence confronting those who challenge authority.

As a young woman, Richards worked as a labor organizer alongside women earning minimum wage, and learned that those in power don’t give it up with no fight. Now, after years of advocacy, resistance, and progressive leadership, she shares her story for the first time—from 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.

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