Summary of Linda R. Hirshman's Sisters in Law

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#1 Sandra’s father, Harry Day, wanted to go to college. He thought he’d go to Stanford after serving in World War I. But just as he set out for college, his father died, leaving his parched and dusty family ranch in southeast Arizona in terrible financial straits.

#2 Sandra Day O’Connor, who was only child, had a sense of entitlement that was typical of straight white men. She was confident in her own equal value, and she would absorb a high level of injustice without complaint.

#3 Ruth Bader’s mother, Celia, had been raised Orthodox, but she had taught her daughter more about the tradition of justice than the more rigid rules of the Jewish faith. When Ruth was older, she and her mother had a ritual of weekly outings.

#4 Ruth Bader was a co-ed at Cornell University, one of the two Ivy League schools that accepted men and women together. She was a typical college coed, appearing in her sorority house picture dressed in a buttoned-up cardigan over a straight skirt topped off with a trendy little knotted scarf.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669387930

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sandra’s father, Harry Day, wanted to go to college. He thought he’d go to Stanford after serving in World War I. But just as he set out for college, his father died, leaving his parched and dusty family ranch in southeast Arizona in terrible financial straits.

#2

Sandra Day O’Connor, who was only child, had a sense of entitlement that was typical of straight white men. She was confident in her own equal value, and she would absorb a high level of injustice without complaint.

#3

Ruth Bader’s mother, Celia, had been raised Orthodox, but she had taught her daughter more about the tradition of justice than the more rigid rules of the Jewish faith. When Ruth was older, she and her mother had a ritual of weekly outings.

#4

Ruth Bader was a co-ed at Cornell University, one of the two Ivy League schools that accepted men and women together. She was a typical college coed, appearing in her sorority house picture dressed in a buttoned-up cardigan over a straight skirt topped off with a trendy little knotted scarf.

#5

Sandra Day O’Connor, who would become a Supreme Court justice, was influenced by her encounter with Harry and Emilia Rathbun at Stanford. The Rathbuns’ teachings helped shape her philosophy of life.

#6

Ruth’s mentor at college was Robert Cushman, who taught her that America was estranged from its most basic values. He said that any change to America’s economic system would be met with resistance by vested interests.

#7

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the future Supreme Court Justice, was taught by her mentor, Harrison Cushman, that lawyers could help make things better for their community, both local and global. She saw a trade plus the ability to use your learning and talent to help make things better for others.

#8

Sandra Day, inspired by Rathbun, went to study law. She graduated from Stanford Law School in 1952. She was a popular student, and she never realized that being a woman would pose a problem for her when she sought to pursue her career.

#9

The lawyer Ruth O’Connor was going to be the first woman in her family to go to law school, but she was shocked when she was told that the legal profession had never hired a woman lawyer. The future feminist leader put her legal education on hold when her husband was drafted out of Harvard.

#10

After Jane was born,