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This has been your periodic reminder that Justice Ginsburg totes rules.
[Via egalia.]
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[Text onscreen: "The Women's Conference / October 26, 2010. / abc.com" Cut to video: Three women are sitting on a stage in front of a banner reading "The Women's Conference 2010," and below a graphic reading "Legendary Architects of Change." The women are, from left to right, ABC News' Diane Sawyer, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.]
Ginsburg: It's the first time the public can see we are really there—really there to stay. Not one at a time curiosities. [applause] You know, one important sign is, in the years that I served with Sandra, every term, without fail, one lawyer or another called me Justice O'Connor [O'Connor nods her head in agreement] because they were accustomed to a woman, and that woman was Sandra—and you can see we really don't look alike, do we? [Laughter; O'Connor laughs and shakes her head and makes a funny gesture] Well, last year, not one person called Sonia Sotomayor Justice Ginsburg, and this year, I am confident, that no one will call Justice Kagan either Justice Sotomayor or Justice Ginsburg. [applause]
Sawyer: Landmarks along the way, yeah. So, have you thought—how many women is enough?
[pause]
O'Connor: What? [laughter]
Ginsberg: How many women—?
Sawyer: How many women would be enough?
Ginsberg: Nine.
[laughter and cheers and applause]
O'Connor: We're not there yet. [Sawyer laughs]
Ginsburg: Well, there've been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?
[cheers and applause]
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