SCOTUS justice known as a champion of equality tells her life story, but not everything here is actually her words Terri SchlichenmeyerBook Reviews My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W.
Williams. c.2016, Simon & Schuster. $30.00 / $39.99 Canada. 374 pages. “Please” and “Thank you.” Those were “The Magic Words” you learned at your mother’s knee, the ones that opened doors and gained favors.
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.
Williams): Letters, when properly collected, can move mountains. Born in working-class Brooklyn in 1933, Joan Ruth Bader was her parents’ second daughter; sadly, their eldest died of