“I thought it was ridiculous for them to make a big deal out of that,” she told The New York Times Sunday Magazine. RBG added, “I’m sure she meant no more than what I mean when I say: Yes, women bring a different life experience to the table. All of our differences make the conference better. That I’m a woman, that’s part of it, that I’m Jewish, that’s part of it, that I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I went to summer camp in the Adirondacks, all these things are part of me.” As for Sotomayor’s calling herself a product of affirmative action, RBG replied crisply, “So am I.” It was an
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Exactly, this is the message I got from what she said too.
