I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or miss big, I like to live as big as I can

All my life I’ve been competing and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn’t going to let it kill me, I wasn’t even going to let it put me on the shelf.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.