Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
[T]his audience can see that I am alive. I am on my way to being very well.
I love my job. It’s the best and the hardest job I ever had. It has kept me going through four cancer bouts. Instead of concentrating on my aches and pains I just know that I have to read this set of briefs, go over the draft opinion, so I have to surmount whatever is going on in my body and concentrate on the court’s work.
— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in remarks given during an appearance at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., where she commented not just on her recent recovery from radiation for pancreatic cancer, but her preparedness for the upcoming Supreme Court term.
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