Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill denies that she ever seriously considered running, explaining that "it required enormous personal sacrifice, and at this time of life, it's not something I want to do." She says that she is a "strong advocate of women running for political office," but refuses to comment about future ambitions for a political career...
Local politicians say that O'Neill quickly decided not to take part in the Eighth. "I asked her because I was thinking of running myself," says Duehay. "She said it was never a very serious possibility...
...father-in-law, Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr., did his best to dissuade everyone in his family from a career politics because "it's too tough a life," her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III, says. The former lieutenant governor gave up his own political career to become a successful real estate developer in Boston...
...moving and shaking for Harvard in Cambridge, Boston and across Massachusetts, O'Neill has a happy marriage, a seven-year-old daughter, Leigh, and a large extended family. "She has the greatest capacity for juggling that I've ever seen," her husband says. "I solicit her advice professionally, because she's smarter than I am," he says...
...Neill, who comes from a long line of working women which dates back to her great-grandmother, says "the heroine role model of a working mother is hardly the professional woman with one child and a flexible job. The real heroine is a single parent working in a factory with four kids." O'Neill adds, "I have a supportive husband, a wonderful daughter, an extended family nearby. It's not a lot of angst...