Sisters in Law (39 page)

  
12 respectable, but not outstanding: Henry Monaghan, interview with the author, October 14, 2013.

  
12 Carl Spaeth: Biskupic,
Sandra Day O'Connor
, 24–25.

  
12 right to privacy: Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,”
Harvard Law Review
4 (December 15, 1890): 193–220,
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12 rule of law itself: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “The Path of the Law,”
Harvard Law Review
10 (1897): 457,
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/
2373.

  
12 secretary of state: Warren Christopher,
Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 19–20
.

  
13 Everybody loved Sandra: A titillating factoid is that apparently Sandra spent a few evenings with Bill Rehnquist, a fellow student just out of the army, and destined as well for higher things. McFeatters,
Sandra Day O'Connor
, 43.

  
13 never dated anyone else: Biskupic,
Sandra Day O'Connor
, 26, n. 18.

  
13 to phone around: Ann McFeatters,
Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 45; David Gergen, “A Candid Conversation with Sandra Day O'Connor: ‘I Can Still Make a Difference,'”
Parade
, September 30, 2012,
http://www.civicmissionofschools.org/news/
2012
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10
-parade-magazine-a-candid-conversation-with-sandra-da.

  
14 had a brain: Marlo Thomas,
The Right Words at the Right Time
(New York: Atria, 2002), 115.

  
14 a similar fate: Seymour Brody, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg,”
Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America:
150
True Stories of Jewish Heroism
(Hollywood, Fla.: Lifetime Books, 1996),
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/
biography/Ginsburg.html

  
15 two classroom buildings: Bradley Blackburn, “Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor on Life and the Supreme Court,”
ABC News
, October 26, 2010,
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/diane-sawyer-interviews-maria-shriver-sandra-day-oconnor/story?id=
11977195.

  
15 1954 desegregation decision: Herbert Wechsler, “Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law,”
Harvard Law Review
73 (1959): 1.

  
16 “their husband's work”: Ira E. Stoll, “Ginsburg Blasts Harvard Law; Past, Present Deans Defend School,”
Harvard Crimson
, July 23, 1993,
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/
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/ginsburg-blasts-harvard-law-pin-testimony/.

  
16 with a Harvard degree: Martin D. Ginsburg, “Spousal Transfers: In '58, It Was Different,”
Harvard Law Record
, May 6, 1977, 11.

  
16 “or had been a male”: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 19, F Bio 1976–78.

  
17 lymph nodes: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 22, 1998.

  
17 died of the disease: Testicular Cancer Resource Center, “Testicular Cancer Treatments: Chemotherapy,”
http://tcrc.acor.org/chemo.html.

  
17 she says flatly: Debra Bruno, “Justice Ginsburg Remembers Her First Steps in the Law,”
Legal Times
, November 13, 2007, www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1194861838591 and http://www.law.com/jsp/article .jsp?id=900005558448&Justice_Ginsburg_Remembers_Her_First_Steps_in_the_Law&slreturn=20130313123922.

  
17 of radiation: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 22, 1998.

  
17 “a set of notes”: Ibid.

  
17 the only woman: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg,”
Miriam's Cup
(website),
http://www.miriamscup.com/GinsburgBiog.htm.

  
17 no further evidence of cancer: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 22, 1998.

  
17 “couldn't cope with”: Bruno, “Justice Ginsburg Remembers.”

  
17 no more children: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 22, 1998.

  
18 “would not give it up”: Stephanie Frances Ward, “Family Ties,”
ABA Journal
, October 1, 2010,
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/family_ties
1
/.

  
18 applied to him: Biskupic,
Sandra Day O'Connor
, 28.

  
19 “run out of money”: taped interview with Sandra O'Connor, Phoenix Oral History Project, 1980, Arizona Historical Society.

  
19 old, tired, and corrupt: Paul Eckstein, interview with the author, April 16, 2013; Zachary Smith,
Politics and Public Policy in Arizona
(Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996).

  
19 took over the state media: “The Arizona Republic: An Overview,” azcentral.com,
http://www.azcentral.com/help/articles/about
2
.html.

  
19 up-and-coming Young Republicans: Dennis Abrams,
Sandra Day O'Connor
(New York: Chelsea House, 2009), 42.

  
20 county vice chairman: “Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Talks about Her Life on Valley Girl,” AOL.com, July 12, 2012,
http://on.aol.com/video/justice-sandra-day-oconnor-talks-about-her-life-on-the-valley-girl-
517415204.

  
20 voluntary organization: Phoenix Oral History Project, taped interview with Sandra Day O'Connor, 1980, Arizona Historical Society.

  
20 365 nights: Ibid.

  
20 gave a party: John Driggs, interview with the author, January 25, 2014.

  
21 “I'm not hiring a woman”: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, interview, Academy of Achievement, August 17, 2010,
http://
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21 salty style of speech: “A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” C-SPAN, September 15, 2009,
http://
www.c-span.org/video/?
288900
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/conversation-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg.

  
21 as harshly as race: Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel,
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 400. In 1973, a former Brennan clerk, then teaching at Berkeley, baldly pressured his former justice to hire his first woman clerk, Marsha Berzon. The
Harvard Law Review
had just done a study of the paucity of female clerks, the male ex-clerk warned Brennan, and it was just a matter of time before the spotlight on him grew more intense.

  
21 “as if I wasn't there”: “A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” C-SPAN, September 15, 2009,
http://www.c-span.org/video/?
288900
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1
/conversation-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg.

  
21 rest of the year: Sandra Grayson, interview with the author, November 8, 2013.

  
21 Eva Moberg: Moberg's article, “Kvinnans villkorliga frigivning,” appeared in an anthology,
Unga Liberaler: nio inlägg i idédebatten
(Stockholm: Bonnier, 1961). Ginsburg's Swedish roots are the subject of a pathbreaking revisionist
history of her jurisprudence by the young legal scholar Cary C. Franklin, “The Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law,”
NYU Law Review
85 (2010), electronic copy available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1589754. Much of this section of
Sisters in Law
is indebted to Franklin's research, as well as my own findings in the Ginsburg archives.

  
22 sex-role stereotyping: Franklin, “The Anti-Stereotyping Principle,” 119.

  
22 “The Emancipation of Man”: Olof Palme, “The Emancipation of Man,” Address Before the Women's National Democratic Club (June 8, 1970),
http://www.olofpalme.org/wp-content/dokument/
700608
_emancipation_of_man”.pdf.
Kenneth M. Davidson, Ruth B. Ginsburg, and Herma H. Kay,
Sex-Based Discrimination: Text, Cases and Materials
(Saint Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1974), 938, 944.

  
22 “her personal talents”: Palme, “The Emancipation of Man.”

  
22 reproducing on the job: Malvina Halberstam, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg,”
Encyclopedia
, Jewish Women's Archive,
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ginsburg-ruth-bader.

  
22 she crowed: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 22, 1998.

  
23 “bra and panties”: Frank Askin, interview with the author, June 18, 2013.

  
23 his unforthcoming spouse: Monagahn interview; Askin interview.

  
23 pictures her children had drawn: Paul Rosenblatt, interview with the author, February 7, 2014.

  
23 “we were so busy”: Ibid.

  
24
any State on account of sex
: The text of the amendment is available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment.

  
24 “I never had a further problem”: Phoenix Oral History Project, transcript of taped interview with Sandra Day O'Connor, 1980, Arizona Historical Society, 10.

  
25 “child care as a result”: Biskupic,
Sandra Day O'Connor
, 31.

  
25 did the people's business: “Sandra Day O'Connor House,” Tempe Preservation on Flickr,
http://www.tempe.gov/city-hall/community-development/historic-preservation/tempe-historic-property-register/sandra-day-o-connor-house.

  
25 discriminatory hiring hall:
Kaplowitz v. University of Chicago
, 387 F.Supp. 42 (1974),
http://www.leagle.com/decision/
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25 influence of the feminist revolution: Frank Askin, interview with author, June 18, 2013.

  
25 there was so little written: Fred Strebeigh,
Equal: Women Reshape American Law
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), 19.

  
25 “putting up with them?”: David Margolick, “Trial by Adversity Shapes Jurist's Outlook,”
New York Times
, June 25, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/25/us/trial-by-adversity-shapes-jurist-s-outlook.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.

  
26 in support of the Equal Rights Amendment: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 20, folder 1970–71, ERA correspondence, contains various letters to each of the members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.

  
26 “Realizing the Equality Principle”: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 12.

  
26 stay-at-home dad during law school: David G. Post, interview with the author, June 3, 2014.

  
26 down the pipeline: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 11, folder speeches 70–71 includes the first of many speeches to the National Conference of Law Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Sex and Unequal Protection: Men and Women as Victims,” keynote address, Southern Regional Conference of the National Conference of Law Women, Duke University, October 1, 1971, published in
Journal of Family Law
11 (1971): 347 (hereafter Duke Speech).

  
27 feminist heroine's consciousness-raising: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 46, F. Sex Equality, 1970.

  
27 “advantaged treatment today”: Duke Speech.

  
27 “extra work during the week”: Alix Kates Shulman, “A Marriage Agreement,”
Up from Under
(August/September 1970); reprinted in
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing
(New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2012), available at http://jwa.org/sites/jwa .org/files/mediaobjects/a_marriage_agreement_alix_kates_shulman.jpg.

  
28 Shulman's little essay: Arlie Russell Hochschild,
The Second Shift
(New York: Avon, 1990).

  
28 She collected: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 46, F. Sex Equality, 1972–73.

  
28 impoverishes women and enriches men: Lenore J. Weitzman, “The Economics of Divorce: Social and Economic Consequences of Property, Alimony and Child Support Awards,”
UCLA Law Review
28 (1980–81): 1181.

  
28 “within the meaning of the Constitution”: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “
Muller v. Oregon
: One Hundred Years Later,”
Willamette Law Review
45 (2009): 359–80 (see 370),
http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/resources/journals/review/pdf/
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