Maxine Jones

“Which is one reason that by the end of the 1860s, Wallace had become a spiritualist. Like Gray, he too found it impossible to accept Darwin’s purely materialist explanation of the universe. It failed, in his opinion, to account for at least three miraculous events in history: the creation of life from inorganic matter, the birth of consciousness in higher animals, and the appearance of moral faculties in humans.”
― Randall Fuller, The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

“Change the standard for reviewing presumptions about women and you change the entire body of law.”
― Linda Hirshman, Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

“v. Wade, the abortion case, on sweeping privacy grounds instead of as an extension of the principle of women’s equality. Resting”
― Linda Hirshman, Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World