Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

The line frames electoral politics as a form of labor in which women’s contributions—organizing, canvassing, fundraising, volunteer coordination, and other behind-the-scenes work—are decisive but often under-credited. By prefacing it with “Growing up in politics,” Kennedy invokes her upbringing in a prominent political family to claim experiential authority, suggesting she has long observed how campaigns actually run. The quip also doubles as a corrective to narratives that treat politics as driven mainly by candidates and strategists: it argues that turnout and persuasion are built through sustained, frequently gendered work. Its punchy certainty (“women decide all elections”) functions rhetorically to elevate women’s political agency and to call for recognition and power commensurate with their effort.