effect. they help keep woman in her place, a place inferior to that occupied by men in our society. >> there was not a single question. i just went on speaking, and i at the time wondered, are they just indulging me and not listening, or am i telling them something they haven't heard before, and are they paying attention? >> the justices were just glued to her. i don't think they were expecting to have to deal with something as powerful as the sheer force of her argument that was just all-encompassing, and they were there to talk about a little statute in the government code. i mean it was -- it was just -- we seized the moment to change american society. >> in asking the court to declare sex a suspect criterion,