Sunday, September 3, 2017


Sally Yates, former Chief, Department of Justice
Fired by Donald Trump after she refused to defend his controversial travel ban against Muslims


deputy attorney general sally yates at the justice department deputy ...

How did she respond to letters from young women?  "It feels weird to talk about this," she says.  "There was always this delicate balance of wanting to be assertive but not be abrasive because you weren't really accepted if you were a woman and you were considered too aggressive.  I don't get the sense that younger women today have to worry about that as much as we did when I was coming up.  That's a really good thing."
During the Women's March she was shopping at a Whole Foods in DC when the store became overwhelmed with protesters.  "I just stood back against the frozen food and just watched these young women carrying signs.  They were so comfortable in their own skin, there were so comfortable that they had a view and there were expressing it and they weren't the least bit sheepish.  And I thought, this is great, this is how it's supposed to be.  So maybe we're in a time when women are finding their voice." 

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