This is true, and she's guilty of her own bouts of baseless envy.

"Politics?" The idea makes her laugh. "No, I wouldn't survive long. I haven't got the knack of telling people what they want to hear or the stomach for knowing I'll never follow through."

It's a question she's heard before, but she's still not quite sure how to answer it. "No. I don't think so. I hate it, but I don't know what I'd do without it. Getting rid of it wouldn't magically give me the life skills I'm missing, so..." There doesn't seem much point.