In an interview with The Nation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it known that she counts something other than sheep when she goes to sleep and that the amount of sexism she faces has declined greatly since January 2007.

Asked about sexism she has experienced, Pelosi delivered a line that only she could: "Once you have the gavel that diminishes it greatly. If they're smart! And mostly they are smart. It's amazing what a difference a gavel makes!"

On whether sexism cost Hillary Clinton the Democratic nomination: "I don't think so. I think that may have been an element but there were other campaign decisions that were not a furtherance of her winning the nomination. Did she advance women? Magnificently."

Pelosi also said something that political junkies can probably relate to: "Every night before I went to sleep [during the 2006 elections] I would count the races that we had to win. I don't know who counts sheep, but I count Congressional districts..."

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