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" No doubt could be read on Clinton’s face that afternoon. He introduced RBG as a hero to the women’s movement and a legal star. Above all, Clinton said, he’d chosen her for being a moderate, neither liberal nor conservative, someone whose “moral imagination has cooled the fires of her colleagues’ discord. “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. "

Irin Carmon , Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg


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Irin Carmon quote : No doubt could be read on Clinton’s face that afternoon. He introduced RBG as a hero to the women’s movement and a legal star. Above all, Clinton said, he’d chosen her for being a moderate, neither liberal nor conservative, someone whose “moral imagination has cooled the fires of her colleagues’ discord. “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.