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I've always had this fantasy about arguing before the Supreme Court with Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Ginsburg nodding me on, believing that the Constitution confers sexual freedom of choice.  At least, we still have Ruth the woman who coined the term "gender" discrimination leaving "sex" discrimination to fall by the way side. Betty hates when we sully the word "sex" with negative connotations such as "sexism" etc. Ruth Ginsburg turned 76 this week:

Ruth Ginsburg told law students at a symposium at Ohio State University that she misses her former colleague Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired in 2006.  "It's lonely for me, not that I don't love all my colleagues. I do," Ginsburg said. Women bring a life experience to the court that men can't, she said.

When members of the public visit the court to watch the proceedings, Ginsburg said she can't help but wonder what they think. "There I am all alone, and it doesn't look right," said Ginsburg, who was appointed to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1993.

The Supreme Court of Canada has four women, including the chief justice, and the United States could benefit by looking at the legal systems of other countries, she said. Ginsburg, 76, had surgery in February for pancreatic cancer. She has said the operation successfully removed the cancer but didn't address the issue Friday.

Ginsburg has said she wants to match the tenure of Justice Louis Brandeis, who served for more than two decades until age 82.

"It's the best and the hardest job I've ever had," she told students.

Court watchers suggest Ginsburg, 88-year-old John Paul Stevens and 69-year-old David Souter are the most likely to retire. If Ginsburg or another justice leaves, it would fall to President Barack Obama to pick a successor. He would be expected to choose another liberal, keeping in place the 5-4 conservative tilt of the court.