MEG GROFF

A message from author Meg Groff

IN MY 33 YEARS AS AN ATTORNEY, protection from abuse, child custody, and child dependency were the cases that never stopped keeping me up at night, because lives were literally at stake. In this book, I tell the stories of some of my most memorable clients—brave women with few resources who fought for justice with amazing resilience, determination, and grace.

     Today, there is still much work to do. I plan to keep fighting for justice for victims of domestic violence and the poor, buoyed by the knowledge that so many others, everywhere in America, are doing the same. Because the words of Jacob Riis, the reporter, photographer, and social reformer who fought to improve conditions in the New York slums, continue to ring true: 

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know that it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.