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- Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
- When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that…
- So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look…
- I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother…
- I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds…
- I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop…
- I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear,…
- What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then…
- When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or…
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