Women Shaping the Future: March 2019 Cover Subjects of Rolling Stone

Reps. Ilhan Omar, Jahana Hayes, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Photographed in Washington, DC, on January 11th, 2019.
Reps. Ilhan Omar, Jahana Hayes, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Photographed in Washington, DC, on January 11th, 2019.
“I don’t care what’s in your heart if how you are voting is the same as someone who is actually racist. At the end of the day, they think that their intentions are gonna save them, but the actual decisions you make matter. I am tired of people saying, “I’m gonna vote the same way as bigots, but I don’t share the ideology of bigots.” Well, you share the action and the agenda of bigots. We need to hold that accountable.”
“I never expected to win,” says Jahana Hayes, the first African-American woman to represent Connecticut in Congress. “I thought it would be a damn good try, and people would get encouraged, and then the next time someone else would do it.”
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GOP operatives in her home state have fixed her with the derisive nickname “The Senator of Small Things.” She acknowledges a certain sexism in the critique — “like I’m a little girl, doing little things” — but just rolls her eyes at it. “You can’t let it dominate your mindset,” she says, smiling. “You have to keep going. That’s the only way you’re going to get power.”
“I have my shawl vault — they’re all in temperature-controlled storage. I have these huge red cases Fleetwood Mac bought, all the way back in 1975 — my clothes are saved in these cases. All my vintage stuff is protected for all my little goddaughters and nieces. I’m trying to give my shawls away — but there’s thousands of them. If I ever write my life story, maybe that should be the name of my book: There’s Enough Shawls to Go Around.
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Brandi Carlisle at home with her daughter in Maple Valley, Washington.
“I learned I can do this, we can do this,” says the Georgia Democrat. “We need to be thinking about what else do we want? What else can we have?
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