And That Goes Double For Priscilla Owen
By Lauren finds this quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday that she doesn’t like the idea of being the only female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. But in choosing to fill one of the two open positions on the court, “any woman will not do,” she said. There are “some women who might be appointed who would not advance human rights or women’s rights,” Ginsburg told those gathered at the New York City Bar Association.
Which is a good time for me to re-quote what Thurgood Marshall said after his resignation:
“My dad told me way back that you can’t use race. For example, there’s no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They’ll both bite.”
The same can be said, of course, of a woman or man wielding a bloody coathanger…