Lisa Jablonsky

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For years in this country there was no one for black men to vent their rage on except black women. And for years black women accepted that rage—even regarded that acceptance as their unpleasant duty. But in doing so, they frequently kicked ...more
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Irin Carmon
“RBG often repeated her mother’s advice that getting angry was a waste of your own time. Even more often, she shared her mother-in-law’s counsel for marriage: that sometimes it helped to be a little deaf.”
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Irin Carmon
“I think that men and women, shoulder to shoulder, will work together to make this a better world. Just as I don’t think that men are the superior sex, neither do I think women are. I think that it is great that we are beginning to use the talents of all of the people, in all walks of life, and that we no longer have the closed doors that we once had.” —RBG”
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb”
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Irin Carmon
“She likes to quote the opening words of the Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union.” Beautiful, yes, but as she always points out, “we the people” originally left out a lot of people. “It would not include me,” RBG said, or enslaved people, or Native Americans. Over the course of the centuries, people left out of the Constitution fought to have their humanity recognized by it. RBG sees that struggle as her life’s work.”
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Irin Carmon
“So when RBG was asked how she had managed to have such an extraordinary marriage, she often answered by saying that Marty himself was extraordinary, and he saw the same in her.”
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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