One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Rose Elizabeth Bird served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice of California. She was the first female justice, and first female chief justice, of that court, appointed by then Governor Jerry Brown.
