I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging - They help you to understand and listen - but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.