Nancy Pelosi's Reasons for Becoming Speaker of the Housebr Book Passage - Dominican University, Book Passage and Marin Magazinebr Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks about Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters.When Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker of the House, she made history. She gavelled the House to order that day on behalf of all of America's children and said, "We have made history, now let us make progress.