Overview
- Pelosi predicted the U.S. will elect a woman to the Oval Office within the next generation, saying it may not happen during her lifetime.
- She described the barrier facing women as a tougher "marble ceiling," not just a glass ceiling.
- She said the public is ahead of Congress in accepting a woman as commander in chief.
- Pelosi cited Hillary Clinton’s 2016 and Kamala Harris’s 2024 defeats to President Donald Trump as experiences that shaped expectations and her own timetable.
- She pushed back on Michelle Obama’s claim that America is not ready for a woman president and recalled early resistance from male colleagues, pointing to a lingering male "pecking order," especially on the Republican side.