5 Quotes & Sayings By Irin Carmon

Irin Carmon is a journalist, author, producer, and host of "On the Media" on WNYC. Carmon has reported on gender, sexuality, politics, human rights, war, technology, and international news. She is the co-author of The New York Times best-selling book Bad Feminist: Essays. Carmon's essays have appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Wired Magazine and elsewhere Read more

Her reporting was supported by a grant from the Institute for Public Knowledge at Columbia Journalism School to investigate the state of newsrooms in 2009.

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When a handful of students came to RBG in 1970 and asked her to teach the first-ever Rutgers class on women and the law, she was ready to agree. It took her only about a month to read every federal decision and every law review article about women’s status. There wasn’t much. One popular textbook included the passage “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed. Irin Carmon
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When RBG fretted over the first dry opinion the chief justice assigned her, O'Connor gave her a pep talk. As RBG read that opinion on the bench, O'Connor, who had dissented in the case, passed her a note. "This is your first opinion for the Court, " she had written. "It is a fine one, I look forward to many more." Remembering the comfort that note gave her on such a nerve wracking day, RBG did the same for the next two women to join the court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. . Irin Carmon
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For some reason, people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: 'When there are nine. Irin Carmon
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Law should be a literary profession, ' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft. Irin Carmon