Ruth Bader Ginsburg — "A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage."
A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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"The notion that because you are a woman, you must be more sensitive or delicate is a stereotype I have fought against my whole life."
"I was not a person who was born with any great talent. I worked very hard."
"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and for her, that meant don't give way to emotions, don't be consumed by useless emotions like anger. The other was to be independent."
"I think that the court should be a guardian of the Constitution."
"I think that the law should be a means to achieve equality."
About Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1993-2020), gender-equality litigator at the ACLU Women's Rights Project before the bench, and the second woman ever appointed. Closely associated with Sandra Day O'Connor (first woman Justice and her predecessor in that role) and Elena Kagan (Obama-appointed colleague). For an intellectual contrast, see Antonin Scalia, conservative originalist Justice (1936-2016) — RBG and Scalia disagreed on nearly every major constitutional case but maintained a famous personal friendship over opera. Their friendship-across-doctrinal-divide became the canonical example of judicial collegiality despite total disagreement — and Scalia's originalism vs RBG's living-Constitution liberalism are the cleanest two American constitutional methodologies.