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She was very frustrated with the tediousness, the slowness, 
in terms of the ability of women to seek opportunity and rise to the top. 

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And so she decided that she didn’t want to be a Congresswoman. 
She wanted to run for governor. 

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And she ran and became the first woman in the country elected to governor—
the governor of Connecticut—in her own right, not succeeding her husband.

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So she was a model. She’s the one who encouraged me to go to law school. 
She’s the one encouraged me to run for public office. 

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And she said, “If you’re going to run, you’ve got to get a law degree,” 
because that’s how you will be treated—

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you know, in terms of the law degree, it will give you—it’s a professional degree. 
It will give you more equal status in the perception of men.