I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
I got into politics when I was eight years old.
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.
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