Editing Ralph Nader (section)

===Personality and character traits===
[[Rupert Cornwell]] of ''[[The Independent]]'' described Nader as an "ascetic ... bordering on self-righteous".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cornwell|first1=Rupert|title=Ralph Nader: Ascetic, zealot-like, bordering on self-righteous|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ralph-nader-ascetic-zealot-like-bordering-on-self-righteous-a6893481.html|access-date=August 1, 2016|work=[[The Independent]]|date=February 27, 2016}}</ref> Despite access to respectable financial assets, he lives in a modest apartment and spends $25,000 annually on personal bills, conducting most of his writing on a [[typewriter]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Victor|first=Kirk|title=Typewriter Man|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-economy/ralph-nader-typewriter-man-20120607|work=[[National Journal]]|access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Princeton alumni piece">{{cite web|last1=Fisher|first1=Marc|title=Ralph Nader '55's Paradise Lost|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/ralph-nader-55s-paradise-lost|website=Princeton Alumni Weekly|date=June 3, 2015|publisher=The Trustees of Princeton University|access-date=May 7, 2018}}</ref>  According to popular accounts of his personal life, he does not own a television, relies primarily on [[public transportation]], and over a 25-year period, until 1983, exclusively wore one of a dozen pairs of shoes he had purchased at a clearance sale in 1959. His suits, which he reports he purchases at sales and outlet stores, have been the repeated subject of public scrutiny, being variously described as "wrinkled", "rumpled", and "styleless". A newspaper story once described Nader as a "conscientious objector to fashion".<ref>{{cite news|title=Conscientious Objector to Fashion|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19910820&id=PRJgAAAAIBAJ&pg=5739,3997624|access-date=August 1, 2016|work=[[The Telegraph (Nashua)|The Telegraph]]|date=August 20, 1991}}</ref>

Nader has never married. Karen Croft, a writer who worked for Nader in the late 1970s at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, once asked him if he had ever considered marriage, to which he responded that he had made a choice to dedicate his life to career rather than family.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/07/nader.html |title=Candidate Nader |work=Mother Jones |access-date=February 1, 2009 }}</ref>