“And then, one day, I remember going to the supermarket here in Delaware, and there was a family in front of me, a father and a couple of kids. He had put back a bunch of grapes because they were five dollars a bunch and he couldn't afford it. It was this turning point. I just realized that I wasn't…”— Lisa Blunt Rochester, elle.comTagged: Supermarket, Grapes, Struggling, Jobs, Homes
“And as I grew up, I was lucky that my first bosses, the ones that really took me under their wings, were very strong women who guided me and pushed me.”— Lisa Blunt Rochester, elle.comTagged: Bosses, Strong Women, Female Role Models
“As a young, young girl, I probably didn't know about women like Rosa Parks. I wasn't that kid who said, 'Someday, I want to be in Congress.' But I knew my grandmothers, and they were incredible people.”— Lisa Blunt Rochester, elle.comTagged: Rosa Parks, Congress, Dream
“My mother's mother worked at a ball-bearing plant. She was a steelworker at a time when it wasn't common to see a woman in that position. Eventually she became a union leader and an activist, trying to stop drugs in her community. (She and her family were pushed out of their neighborhood by drug dea…”— Lisa Blunt Rochester, elle.comTagged: grandmother, Working Class, union leader, Drugs