INSKEEP: How did you keep your friendship separate from your work when it became apparent that you were going to be covering Ruth Bader Ginsburg all the time? We were very lucky to, in our formative lives, be together and to be able to help each other and to learn from each other and to lean on each other. TOTENBERG: I was experiencing and Cokie Roberts was experiencing and Susan Stamberg was experiencing and Linda Wertheimer was experiencing all of the same kinds of things that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was. INSKEEP: Though Ginsburg is the star, Totenberg's book talks of a generation of women - and men who helped them - including some women known as founding mothers of this network. And she muttered - she said something like, I really wanted to say, how much experience do you have in sex discrimination cases or discrimination cases of any kind? She'd been interviewed by this committee who told her she didn't have enough securities law experience. I remember how distressed she was because she'd applied for a federal district court judgeship. Ginsburg is now one of the friends Nina discusses in a book called "Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir Of The Power Of Friendships." They became friends and remained so as Ginsburg became a Supreme Court justice years later. INSKEEP: Totenberg called a little-known lawyer in the case named Ruth Bader Ginsburg. TOTENBERG: And when women didn't even have the vote. INSKEEP: In a time when men alone had the vote. And I really didn't understand that because it was passed after the Civil War for enslaved people to make sure that they were free. And I was reading a brief that said that the 14th Amendment guaranteed to equal protection of the law applied to women. TOTENBERG: I was a newly assigned, very young reporter to cover the court. INSKEEP: And she has a memory of her early years of encountering another woman. NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: I was a young woman at a time when there were almost none of us in the workforce. Our colleague Nina Totenberg has been covering the Supreme Court for decades.
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