because people tebded to live in neighborhoods that they were either all white or all african-american. there really was a we/they. which ones people stood up and said this is who i am, that made an enormous difference. >> if you count the decade from-- versus ferguson accepting segregation as compatible with the 14th amendment to brown versus board of education, it was over 50 years. and it took us that long to live with societial expectations of what equality, true equality had to mean. i think ruth is pointing to the fact that we have a society that begins to think about notions differently with experience. and that experience is, and those experiences teach both the society and yes justices. >> is there a special bond between the three justices that are women on this court? >> i say there is a special pride that i have in my newest colleagues. because you know what our little girls made of, sugar and spice and everything nice, that is what 4reu8 girls are made of. little boys, nails and snails and puppy dog tails. well, all of you who have visited the supreme court know that my new