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“RBG saw injustice in the world and she used her abilities to help change it.”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Always be independent.”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“When a handful of students came to RBG in 1970 and asked her to teach the first-ever Rutgers class on women and the law, she was ready to agree. It took her only about a month to read every federal decision and every law review article about women’s status. There wasn’t much. One popular textbook included the passage “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed.”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Suddenly, she felt the ground steady under her. These men, the most important judges in the country, were her captive audience for the next ten minutes. RBG knew so much more about the case and the topic than they did. She had to teach them. She knew how to do that. RBG had been teaching law for almost a decade.”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg cannot be called a liberal or a conservative; she has proved herself too thoughtful for such labels,” the president said. “Having experienced discrimination,” he added, “she devoted the next twenty years of her career to fighting it and making this country a better place for our wives, our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters.” RBG would have added, “And our husbands, our fathers, our brothers, and our sons.”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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