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You go from being basically just a regular civilian to being a household name overnight.
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>> That is what happened. >> It must have been wild. >> Well, it was wild. It was like mic drop
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moment. Say what? A young woman? Say what? And of course, I was 37. Guess who else was 37? She became prime minister.
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And I was asked in my press conference, are you going to have children? Now, I knew I wasn't I wasn't going to, but I
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don't think I said that. So, isn't it interesting that I don't know how many
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years later, 20 years later, Justinda becomes prime minister, and she gets asked the same question. So nothing so
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much had changed, but nothing had changed. >> I knew at 16 that [music] I didn't have
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the energy to do everything I wanted in my life and have children, but that's
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got much better. I wouldn't want to anyone listening to think that's such so
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much of a problem now. [music] Corporates are much better. But in my day, you had to be able to do this, go
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there, do that. You had you could be a woman, but you sort of had to all sense of purpose sort of had to be available
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like a man was. >> So it was sort of one or the other really. You had to pick.
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>> Well, I mean, Sylvia Carter didn't have kids. Helen Clark didn't have kids. I
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mean just have a look at the women from that era.