Cara Stone

“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“They'd shake their heads and hug me too long and say, 'How. Are. You. Doing?' When I'd say, in all honesty, that I was fine, they'd look to the sky, nod their heads, and ask for the truth. Well, the truth was that I was doing great, until I saw their funereal fucking faces. Now, I felt like slapping someone.”
― Meredith Norton, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting

“Since the diagnosis, all the hugs may have been intended to help me, but were really serving the hugger.”
― Meredith Norton, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting