Jesus didn't think she was the best of us.
This is what HE had to say......
Matthew 11:11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Luke 7:28 I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
And what do you presume that Mary did not get there before you? I say she was the first in time to enter the kingdom? The first person since Adam and Even to be true free. We will leave aside the immaculate conception, as that is is a subsidiary doctrine. From the moment she said yes to the angel, she was filled with the Holy Spirit in a way we cannot imagine.No mystic has ever been so close to God.