“Nine, nine… There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?”

—  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In response to the question “How many women would be enough” [on the Supreme Court] during interview https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/chat-women-supreme-court-11976773 with Diane Sawyer at The Women’s Conference (Long Beach, California, October 26, 2010)

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