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<b>Subject:</b> [WUNRN] Suggestions for Raising Confident, Strong, High-Achieving Daughters - From USA Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SUGGESTIONS FOR RAISING CONFIDENT, STRONG, HIGH-ACHIEVING DAUGHTERS – FROM USA SUPREME COURT JUSTIC<span style="color:#1F497D">E</span> RUTH BADER GINSBURG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Heebo;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="679" height="315" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D38020.6A6AA880" alt="https://www.incimages.com/uploaded_files/image/970x450/getty_609610880_2000148020009280146_113015.jpg"></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Heebo;color:black;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Heebo;color:#333333">Ruth Bader Ginsburg.- CREDIT: Getty Images</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">October 2016 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perhaps an unlikely rock star: an 83-year-old U.S. Supreme Court justice who was
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/25/us/trial-by-adversity-shapes-jurist-s-outlook.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#009CD8;text-decoration:none">described as</span></a> "dour," "quiet and reserved," and a "late-blooming feminist" when she was nominated to the court in 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">But if you have a daughter, and you love her, and you want her to grow up to be a confident trail-blazer--you could do a lot worse than suggesting Ginsburg as a role model.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Writing in
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-advice-for-living.html" target="_blank">
<i><span style="color:#009CD8;text-decoration:none">The New York Times</span></i></a> this week, she offered her "advice for living," in advance of her new book,
<a href="http://amzn.to/2dFYu24" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#009CD8;text-decoration:none">My Own Words</span></i></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Here's Ginsburg's best counsel, especially for parents of daughters who want them to mature into confident, fierce, high-achieving women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">1. Foster a love of reading.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">No matter what you hope for your child, or what she hopes for herself, there's no better thing you can impart than a love of reading. It's truly a passport to explore the world, barely
discriminates between rich and poor, and can expand and train her mind. It's important enough that it's the first thing Ginsburg mentions in her article, and she credits her mother, who "</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">by
her example, made reading a delight." </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Sadly, Ginsburg's mother battled cervical cancer and died young, reportedly the day before Ruth's high school graduation ceremony. Ginsburg later
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/10/01/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ruth-bader-ginsburg" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#009CD8;text-decoration:none">called her mother</span></a> "the bravest and strongest person I have known, who was taken from me much too soon."</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">2. Teach them to be independent.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">This is truly the second most important thing: ensuring that they learn who they really are and remain true to themselves. Society pulls people in so many different directions, trying
to shape us into roles that we might not really want for ourselves. I'm speaking as a man, but it's easy to see how this is even more challenging for women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Again, Ginsburg credits her mother for fostering this streak in her. It was her mother, she writes, who "counseled me constantly to 'be independent,' able to fend for myself, whatever
fortune might have in store for me."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">3. Encourage them to seek out great teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Many of us can remember one or two teachers who made a real difference in our lives. Ginsburg cites two: a college professor and a law school professor. She credits the latter, Gerald
Gunther at Columbia Law School, with helping her achieve her first big career break--a clerkship with a federal district judge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">It's of note that Ginsburg graduated near the top of her class in 1960 but was not able to get an even more prestigious clerkship with an appellate judge, because she was a woman and
the mother of a 4-year-old child.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">4. Encourage them to turn a deaf ear when needed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">The best advice she ever received, Ginsburg said, was from her new mother-in-law, who told her on her wedding day in 1954: "In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Sure, it helped in marriage, Ginsburg said, but added: "I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune
out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">One of the best examples comes from an equal rights case Ginsburg argued before the Supreme Court as a lawyer in 1979. Having made her argument, one of the justices--they were all men
at that time--asked her (perhaps jokingly) whether she'd be willing to settle for having Susan B. Anthony on the then-new dollar coin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Ginsburg thought of the perfect quip--"No, we won't settle for tokens"--but later said she decided to turn a deaf ear, and simply didn't answer the justice's question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">5. Encourage them to set aside their worries--and simply achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">In retrospect, most things in life seem inevitable, but this would be a good time to consider just how unlikely Ginsburg's assent and career have been. She didn't grow up with money,
and her family faced tragedy twice before she was 18--the death of not only her mother but also her 6-year-old sister.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">When Ginsburg decided to go to law school, only 3 percent of attorneys were women, and there was only one female appellate judge in America. Moreover, there were no laws prohibiting employers
from simply firing women who became pregnant. We were still 20 years away from laws ensuring that women could open credit cards in their own names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Ginsburg writes about some simple advice that her father-in-law gave her at the time that inspired her: "Stop worrying, and find a way to manage."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">At the time, this meant that she and her husband both started law school while simultaneously caring for their infant daughter--an unusual circumstance at the time. (By the way, their
daughter grew up to be an attorney as well, and is now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Ginsburg" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#009CD8;text-decoration:none">on the faculty</span></a> at Columbia Law School.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">6. Teach them that they can make their own luck.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Ginsburg describes herself as very fortunate to have been born when she was, but as we've seen, it was actually quite unlikely that she would ascend to the successes she ultimately did.
A few facts put this in context:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:RobotoRegular">Before law school, Ginsburg was demoted at a job for becoming pregnant.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:RobotoRegular">Sexism was so systemic under the law that one of her first cases as a lawyer before the Supreme Court challenged a state law that set different legal drinking ages for men and women.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:RobotoRegular">And when she became a professor for the first time at Rutgers University, she was paid less than her male colleagues, because it was expected she could always rely on her husband's salary.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">As she puts it, though: "I was ... alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the
equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">All of this reminds us that while circumstances may play a part in terms of opportunity, it's also your reaction to those circumstances that spins fate. People who understand that are
more likely to succeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:RobotoBlack;color:#333333">7. Pray that if they marry, it is a good match.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">My fellow columnist Jeff Haden has written recently how important it is to
<a href="https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/16-telltale-signs-you-really-did-marry-the-perfect-person.html">
<span style="color:#009CD8;text-decoration:none">marry the correct person</span></a>. In the most touching part of her advice column, Ginsburg leaves no doubt that she did choose her spouse wisely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">She met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, while they were both students at Cornell. He became a lawyer as well, and as his wife's judicial career took off, he sacrificed for her--moving from
New York to Washington, for example, and getting rid of potentially lucrative investments that could have created conflicts of interest for her. Plus, he did all the cooking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">Martin Ginsburg died in 2010. As Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">"I have had more than a little bit of luck in life, but nothing equals in magnitude my marriage to Martin D. Ginsburg. I do not have words adequate to describe my supersmart, exuberant,
ever-loving spouse. ... Marty coached me through the birth of our son, he was the first reader and critic of articles, speeches and briefs I drafted, and he was at my side constantly, in and out of the hospital, during two long bouts with cancer. And I betray
no secret in reporting that, without him, I would not have gained a seat on the Supreme Court."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">…………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-advice-for-living.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-advice-for-living.html?_r=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">USA Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Reflections & Advice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">By RUTH BADER GINSBURG - OCT. 1, 2016
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="576" height="384" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D38020.6A6AA880" alt="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/02ginsburg/02ginsburg-master768.jpg"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her Supreme Court nomination hearings in 1993. Credit Stephen Crowley
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Did you always want to be a judge” or, more exorbitantly, “a Supreme Court justice?” Schoolchildren
visiting me at the court, as they do at least weekly, ask that question more than any other. It is a sign of huge progress made. To today’s youth, judgeship as an aspiration for a girl is not at all outlandish. Contrast the ancient days, the fall of 1956,
when I entered law school. Women accounted for less than 3 percent of the legal profession in the United States, and only one woman had ever served on a federal appellate court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Today about half the nation’s law students and more than one-third of our federal judges are women,
including three of the justices seated on the United States Supreme Court bench. Women hold more than 30 percent of law school deanships in the United States and serve as general counsel to 24 percent of Fortune 500 companies. In my long life, I have seen
great changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became
possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. Feminists, caring men among them, had sought just that for generations. Until the late 1960s, however,
society was not prepared to heed their plea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What enabled me to take part in the effort to free our daughters and sons to achieve whatever their
talents equipped them to accomplish, with no artificial barriers blocking their way? First, a mother who, by her example, made reading a delight and counseled me constantly to “be independent,” able to fend for myself, whatever fortune might have in store
for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Second, teachers who influenced or encouraged me in my growing-up years. At Cornell University, my professor
of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image
or an idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined
to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. After heroic efforts, Professor Gunther succeeded in that mission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Another often-asked question when I speak in public: “Do you have some good advice you might share with
us?” Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. “In every good marriage,” she counseled, “it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.” I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of
a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Advice from my father-in-law has also served me well. He gave it during my gap years, 1954 to ‘56, when
my husband, Marty, was fulfilling his obligation to the Army as an artillery officer at Fort Sill, Okla. By the end of 1954, my pregnancy was confirmed. We looked forward to becoming three in July 1955, but I worried about starting law school the next year
with an infant to care for. Father’s advice: “Ruth, if you don’t want to start law school, you have a good reason to resist the undertaking. No one will think the less of you if you make that choice. But if you really want to study law, you will stop worrying
and find a way to manage child and school.” And so Marty and I did, by engaging a nanny on school days from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Work-life balance was a term not yet coined in the years my children were young; it is aptly descriptive
of the time distribution I experienced. My success in law school, I have no doubt, was in large measure because of baby Jane. I attended classes and studied diligently until 4 in the afternoon; the next hours were Jane’s time, spent at the park, playing silly
games or singing funny songs, reading picture books and A. A. Milne poems, and bathing and feeding her. After Jane’s bedtime, I returned to the law books with renewed will. Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion
that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I have had more than a little bit of luck in life, but nothing equals in magnitude my marriage to Martin
D. Ginsburg. I do not have words adequate to describe my supersmart, exuberant, ever-loving spouse. Early on in our marriage, it became clear to him that cooking was not my strong suit. To the eternal appreciation of our food-loving children (we became four
in 1965, when our son, James, was born), Marty made the kitchen his domain and became chef supreme in our home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ron Klain, then associate White House counsel, said of my 1993 nomination: “I would say definitely and
for the record, though Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have been picked for the Supreme Court anyway, she would not have been picked for the Supreme Court if her husband had not done everything he did to make it happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">That “everything” included gaining the unqualified support of my home state senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
and enlisting the aid of many members of the legal academy and practicing bar familiar with work I had done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I have several times said that the office I hold, now for more than 23 years, is the best and most consuming
job a lawyer anywhere could have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The court’s main trust is to repair fractures in federal law. Because the court grants review dominantly
when other jurists have divided on the meaning of a statutory or constitutional prescription, the questions we take up are rarely easy; they seldom have indubitably right answers. Yet by reasoning together at our conferences and, with more depth and precision,
through circulation of, and responses to, draft opinions, we ultimately agree far more often than we divide sharply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">When a justice is of the firm view that the majority got it wrong, she is free to say so in dissent.
I take advantage of that prerogative, when I think it important, as do my colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Despite our strong disagreements on cardinal issues — think, for example, of controls on political campaign
spending, affirmative action, access to abortion — we genuinely respect one another, even enjoy one another’s company.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns
to us if we didn’t — to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions — “get over it!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt">Earlier, I spoke of great changes I have seen in women’s occupations. Yet one must acknowledge the still bleak part of the picture. Most
people in poverty in the United States and the world over are women and children, women’s earnings here and abroad trail the earnings of men with comparable education and experience, our workplaces do not adequately accommodate the demands of childbearing
and child rearing, and we have yet to devise effective ways to ward off sexual harassment at work and domestic violence in our homes. I am optimistic, however, that movement toward enlistment of the talent of all who compose “We, the people,” will continue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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