Although the mild-mannered liberal RBG disagreed with the blustery conservative Scalia from the start, “I was fascinated by him because he was so intelligent and so amusing,” RBG said. “You could still resist his position, but you just had to like him.” By the time they were both on the Supreme Court, Scalia called her “an intelligent woman and a nice woman and a considerate woman—all the qualities that you like in a person.”