Linda Hirshman famous quotes

Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.
-- Linda Hirshman

#Revenge #Battle #Ladders

If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.
-- Linda Hirshman

#Winning #Sopranos #Lawyer

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. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.
-- Linda Hirshman

#Daughter #Cousin #Wall

[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 therefore other women were worthy.
-- Linda Hirshman

#Thinking #Justice #Feminism

By judging differently and by recognizing their female experiences and bringing them to bear on the Supreme Court's decision, Ginsburg and O'Connor both made it legitimate for people to be different.
-- Linda Hirshman

#People #Judging #Decision

O'Connor lives by the following words: You don't look back. When people ask O'Connor now, "Aren't you sorry you resigned because everything you voted for is being reversed by the current court?" She says, "You can't look back."
-- Linda Hirshman

#Sorry #People #Live By

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.