46 Quotes by Irin Carmon

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.

Law should be a literary profession,' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.

For some reason, people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: 'When there are nine.

When RBG fretted over the first dry opinion the chief justice assigned her, O'Connor gave her a pep talk. As RBG read that opinion on the bench, O'Connor, who had dissented in the case, passed her a note. "This is your first opinion for the Court," she had written. "It is a fine one, I look forward to many more." Remembering the comfort that note gave her on such a nerve wracking day, RBG did the same for the next two women to join the court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Law should be a literary profession,′ RGB says, ’and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.

Anyway, hope springs eternal. If I lose today, there’s hope that tomorrow will be better.” – RBG, 2012.

The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.