When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much. " You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing. . . . And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school. . . . That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.