"I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it."
American politician and legal scholar serving as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 2013. She is known for consumer-protection work and financial-regulation advocacy. Before elected office, she taught law and helped shape the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.