![]() ![]() Ginsburg wrote the book's preface, while Hartnett and Williams contextualize each part and the selections, which include law review articles, speeches, briefs and dissents. "I pray that I may be all that she would have been, had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve, and daughters are cherished as much as sons."Ī copy of the speech appears roughly halfway into the new book, My Own Words, a collection of the justice's writings and remarks curated by Ginsburg and her biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. "It is to my mother, Celia Amster Bader, the bravest, strongest person I have known, who was taken from me much too soon," she said in a slow, measured voice. "I have a last thank-you," the petite judge said in the Rose Garden in June 1993, with President Bill Clinton at her side and the microphones on the podium angled down to accommodate her small stature. More than 40 years later she alluded to this loss when she accepted her nomination to the U.S. Her mother died of cancer just two days before the ceremony. Ruth Bader Ginsburg never made it to her own high-school graduation to deliver the remarks she was supposed to give there. ![]()
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