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New York Magazine

The Perils of Jeanine

It’s as if Pirro has woken up from her bad dream and remembered who she was. “When I was a little girl growing up in Elmira, I always wanted to be a lawyer,” she says to me just before we conclude our conversation. “People used to say, ‘Don’t you want to be a mommy?’ This is who I am. It’s who I’ve always been. It’s now up to me to tell people what I’m about.”