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''My Own Words'' is a 2016 book by American
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by Presiden ...
and her biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. The book is a collection of Bader Ginsburg's speeches and writings dating back to the eighth grade. It was Bader Ginsburg's first book since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993.


Background

In March 2016,
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announced ''My Own Words'' was slated to release in January 2017. The book was released early on October 4, 2016.


Synopsis

Bader Ginsburg writes the preface to the book, with Hartnett and Williams contextualizing "each part of the sections, which include law review articles, speeches, briefs and dissents." Many topics are covered in ''My Own Words'', including Bader Ginsburg's life as a Jewish woman, gender equality, the Supreme Court, and interpreting the U.S. Constitution. One chapter consists of excerpts from Derrick Wang's opera '' Scalia/Ginsburg'', with forewords by Ginsburg and Justice Antonin Scalia. One of the treatises in the book is the speech she gave when accepting the position of Supreme Court Justice. Another is a writing on why the United States needs the Equal Rights Amendment. Bader Ginsburg also recalls her relationship with Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. Of Scalia, she stated, "some very good people have some very bad ideas." Of O'Connor, she stated she learned to "waste no time on anger, regret or resentment, just get the job done."


Reception

Reception for the book was generally positive. ''
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'' stated, "What emerges is not a portrait of a take-no-prisoners advocate but a strategic legal plotter who understands how to bring her audience around to her point of view." '' Kirkus Reviews'' stated, "Only the most dedicated Ginsburg fans, and there are many, will devour everything here, but most readers will find items of interest from this icon of women’s rights." ''
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'' stated, "In ''My Own Words''... the vim and vigor that she is famous for expressing from the Supreme Court bench is just as apparent in her high school editorials." ''
The New Republic ''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hu ...
'' stated, "The selection showcases her astonishing intellectual range, from law and lawyers in opera, to tributes to Louis Brandeis,
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, and
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, to the significance and form of dissenting opinions."


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Discussion with Ginsburg on ''My Own Words'', September 14, 2016
C-SPAN
Discussion with Ginsburg on ''My Own Words'', April 27, 2017
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