More by Linda Hirshman
Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white.…
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Linda Hirshman
![“[Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism. They were not entirely the same, [but] I think that they shared the most important thing, which is the belief that they were worthy and that…” quote by Linda Hirshman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f2/linda-hirshman-53103_ambitious_ginsburg-s-feminism-was-very-sweeping-an_3193470.jpg)