First: Sandra Day O'Connor
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She could be emotional; she laughed easily and was not ashamed to cry in private,
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Because, if you’re not curious, you’re not smart.”48
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Ginsburg would
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become a pop-culture feminist icon,
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the Court has in its long history swung right, swung left—and then swung back again.
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For more than two decades, during tumultuous times, she had kept the Court centered.
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The partisans of the twenty-first-century state legislature were more interested in attacking one another.10
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She would never put it so cheekily, but by not threatening men, she more easily replaced them.
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She brought to her job the wisdom that can come from personal suffering, from having a great love and losing it, from being a daughter and a mother as well as a role model for millions of women.