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Pelosi Has a Mom's-Eye View
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What does it mean to be the first female speaker?
"It's very big. The communications that I received from all over the world were very telling. Of course I heard from women and girls about how excited they were. Older women my age who said, 'I never thought I'd see the day.' Young girls who say, 'Now I can do anything!' . . . Fathers who were so proud of what the prospects would be for their daughters now that this marble ceiling had been broken.
"What is means for me to be the speaker is that members of Congress view a woman with power in the Congress. . . . For men here, who are very powerful, to have to take the lead of a woman with more power is a real change. "
Growing up, what did you want to be?
"I took life as it came along. I enjoyed being a little girl and playing with my friends. I loved being a teenager. . . . And then when I went away to college, I loved that. . . .
"Although I was a normal child and teenager, I still had serious responsibilities at home to help with people who would call who needed help, who needed food, who needed a job, who needed housing. . . . My father was mayor from when I was in first grade to when I went away to college, so we all had our responsibilities to courteously respond to the needs of the people of Baltimore."
Did that make you want to go into politics?
"No. I didn't ever think of it, [though] I loved the issues. . . . I liked the excitement of campaigns, but I never thought of it for me. Never. It was just one of those things that, as time went by, one thing led to another."
