![]() ![]() Bader attended public school a block from her home there, because of other girls in her class who shared her first name, she started using her middle name “for more official purposes.” She was raised to be independent and was an avid reader, a notably talented storyteller, and she loved gymnastics but “was not… especially fond of math.” And since she grew up in the shadow of World War II and was Jewish, she was fully aware of anti-Semitism.Įven as a child, in fact, young Bader chafed at inequality and “hypocritical rules.” She was also eloquent in her writing and was first published (in a Jewish Center newsletter) at age 13. ![]() Theirs was a close-knit neighborhood, and the family had many of the luxuries of the day. Williams): letters, when properly collected, can move mountains.īorn in working-class Brooklyn in 1933, Joan Ruth Bader was her parents’ second daughter sadly, their eldest died of meningitis just fourteen months later. That was also when you learned something important, as you’ll see in “My Own Words” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Those were The Magic Words you learned at your mother’s knee, the ones that opened doors and gained favors. ![]() ![]() “My Own Words” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. ![]()
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