The journey told by one successful, professional attorney, Sandra Day O'Connor. Her local experience in the liberal Bay Area.
Trust me, we never want to go back to those days, not in sexism or racism.
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| Sandra Day O'Connor - you go girl |
"San Francisco Chronicle/Jill Tucker, 10/22/12. "Sandra Day O'Connor courts San Francisco audience." "Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, smiled as she told
the story of her first job as an attorney to a San Francisco
audience Monday.
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| Retired Supreme Court Justice |
It was just down the road in San Mateo, where she
started her career finagling an unpaid position as a San Mateo County
public attorney - a job she landed after 40 all-male Bay Area law firms
rejected her despite her top-of-the-class Stanford University law degree.
All the county attorney offices and desks were taken. "So I put my desk in with the secretary," she said. "And you know what? I loved my job." It would have been nice to be paid, she noted.
O'Connor, 82,
told the story without any hint of bitterness as she chronicled bits of
her early life growing up on an isolated Arizona farm and her historic
role on the nation's highest court at a sold-out San Francisco Commonwealth Club appearance at the Herbst Theatre."
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Posted by Kathy Meeh
8 comments:
cool lady
Isn't she the one who said our US Constition is a bad example for other nations to use?
"Her local experience in the liberal Bay Area."
That's not a sentence. You need verbs in sentences.
I'm not the anon that first commented, but I have to say that the way you used "experience" in that sentence fragment was as a noun. You still need a verb in it to make it a complete sentence. It has a subject but no predicate. Given that written English has deteriorated in the internet age, I'm not going to hold anyone to what used to be the normal standard of English grammar, but at the same time if "what I said works for me" is going to be the new standard, we might as well give up teaching English in school. U C wht I meen?
"You need verbs in sentences." Anonymous, 2:20 PM
Experience? Experience is a noun or a verb. Note, the word itself may be a sentence.
"The journey told by one successful, professional attorney, Sandra Day O'Connor. Her local experience in the liberal Bay Area. Trust me, we never want to go back to those days, not in sexism or racism."
You may have a better way of stating that. Frankly since you did not offer, I don't think I much care. But what I said works for me. (And we do need to learn from the wisdom of history)
"..we might as well give up teaching English in school." Anon 3:45 PM
Does English really matter when the bar is set so low for history, political science, science, civics, logic and ethics?
I guess you're right. English doesn't really matter. Neither does history, political science, civics, logic and ethics. So let's talk more about Agenda 21 and the hippies.
Thought provoking ideas deserve our best writing and speaking skills, but even when those aren't present, they do have a way of making themselves known. Case in point, that sage, Yogi Berra.
Sandra Day O'Connor rocks! Her
days as one of the Supremes saw some very important decisions. She has character and a real sense of the court's role in American life.
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