how did that feel? feel kind of good? yeah. i am woman. hear me roar. it felt great. it did. i, too, beat a long-time incumbent for my seat and it was just a matter of just saying, you know what? why not me? if have been in the state house and worked as a teacher. and i ve been at the state house for 21 years. you get called girl. can you believe that? say, listen. just call me barbara, miss barbara, miss cooper, representative cooper. call me by my name. you have to work harder than everybody else, longer, be smarter, show up earlier. it s hard to run for office as a woman. we had to fight a different way in order to gain respect from the men that we were sitting next to. this is one of our largest african-american communities in the county. despite what our ancestors had to go through and slaves on the