Because stay-at-home moms don’t have a life.

Via Politico:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that what her youngest daughter told her when she said she might run for Congress made quite an impression.

Pelosi said at POLITICO’s Women Rule Summit on Wednesday that she told her daughter, Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school at the time, that she could run for Congress but would stay home if that’s what she wanted.

“Thinking this was this very sincere question,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. “To which she looked up to me and said, ‘Mother, get a life.’ … It didn’t take her a nanosecond to respond.”

Pelosi appeared on a panel discussion with her daughter, a filmmaker, at the Women Rule conversation series, co-sponsored by The Tory Burch Foundation and Google, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C., attended by nearly 400 people.

The mother and daughter shared what it was like growing up in the Pelosi household, with Alexandra saying one of the first things that changed when her mother ran for Congress was that she stopped cooking, which she had always done.

“She started by getting food from nice restaurants and putting it on the table as if she cooked it,” Alexandra said, before that stopped as well.

But one thing that has not changed, Alexandra said, is her mother’s love of children.

“When you’re on an airplane, and there’s a baby crying the whole ride, she’s the one who’s saying ‘let me get there and help,’” Alexandra said.