PositiveThe Washington PostAnn Richards’s fans will enjoy Cecile’s account of her mother’s political career and the amazing Texas women who played supporting roles, including Barbara Jordan and Molly Ivins. Cecile Richards recounts the painful decision of friends and family to stage an intervention and start her mother on a path to sobriety (Ann Richards called it 'drunk school') ... Almost as interesting are Richards’s lists of things to know about political organizing, learned from her mother’s experience and from working with women like former House speaker Nancy Pelosi ... This is a woman who has a way with maxims ... Cecile Richards is nowhere near saying that a new day is coming in the wake of women’s marches and pink knitted hats. She does say that now women have enormous power and it’s time to use it — presumably to make trouble.
