I could see my father in the distance-I recognized him by his hat-and I was sure he was mad at me because I wasn’t on time. By the time I got to the men, it was several hours past lunch. Then I got the flat tire off and the spare tire on, put the lug bolts in tight, and got everything working again. I knew how to jack a car up-I’d seen it done-so I found the jack and did that. I was going along, when all of a sudden I got a flat tire. So I got up extremely early, my mother and I fixed the lunch, and I got in a pickup truck alone to drive to the place where they were. We had to get lunch to them, and the roundup cook for some reason wasn’t going to be there. Once, when I was a teenager, the workers were rounding up the cattle in an area very far from the ranch headquarters. Everyone was expected to help and to do their best. Growing up on a ranch, you’re assigned certain tasks, and you’d darned well better do them and do them right. You grew up on a ranch that straddled Arizona and New Mexico-a long way from Washington, DC, and the Supreme Court. Known as a centrist, a consensus builder, and a “mother hen” to her staff, she now leads iCivics, a platform for teaching kids about government. state senate and the first woman on the U.S. She went on to become the first female majority leader of a U.S. Sandra Day O’Connor graduated from Stanford Law School in 1952 but had trouble finding work as a lawyer because, at the time, firms would hire only men.
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