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Ginsburg argued that if the Supreme Court in 1973 had simply struck down the Texas law at issue in the case and had resisted the temptation to impose a national framework for abortion, the case might have inspired less of a backlash, allowing a growing number of state legislatures to recognize a right to reproductive choice on their own. What her feminist critics in the 1990s failed to appreciate was that Ginsburg was laying the groundwork for a firmer constitutional foundation for reproductive choice, one rooted in women’s equality rather than the right to privacy.
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Jeffrey Rosen (Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law)
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability, and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.” —RBG,
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Irin Carmon (Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
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she was known as an intellectual force for women’s suffrage. She was a strong believer that women’s rights and the abolition of slavery should be approached as one issue, a controversial proposition at the time. “Emancipation from every kind of human bondage is my principle,” she said.
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Nadine Epstein (RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone)
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In the Jewish world, when someone dies, it is customary to say Baruch dayan ha’emet, which means “Blessed be the true judge.
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Nadine Epstein (RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone)