Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
[W]e made it and there’s still time for me to do a few things before meeting with my trainer.
— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, concluding her final interview on August 5, 2014, with Maeva Marcus, a historian with George Washington University Law School, on behalf of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit, for the justice’s oral history. Over the course of eight in-depth interviews, Ginsburg memorialized her personal and professional life in her own words. She donated the oral history to the ABA Women Trailblazers Project, and asked that it be released today, on the fifth anniversary of her death. Read the full transcript here.
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