RIP RBG

My humble tribute to this giant of a woman. My friend Joan Heiman sent over this lovely video, https://youtu.be/yRQM4NJJx-s in honor of Justice Ginsburg. In it, she is interviewed by NPR’s Nina Totenberg at the 2019 National Book Festival. It is an intimate setting of a few thousand and filled with fans. Their love and enthusiasm for her is infectious. Justice Ginsburg’s biographers Wendy Williams and, Mary Hartnett join in the conversation. It is a special opportunity to see a bit of reminiscence, her characteristic sly humor, and her continued amazing clarity.

I am indebted to her for all she has done for women.

I picked up the following from Facebook:

If you, as a woman, have a credit card in your own name and your own credit history, if you have leased an apartment or bought property in your name, if you have consented to your own medical treatment, if you played a sport in school, you can thank Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

To that I would just add, I thank her specifically or her work on the Equal Protection Clause in the 1970’s which made constitutional, the truth that women were people equal in stature to men. (Ginsburg’s words from the interview).

As the time drew to a close, Nina asked Justice Ginsburg what it felt like, at 80 years old, to become a cultural and pop icon and to be declared “Notorious.”

“It’s amazing,” she said, with her characteristic smile.

For those of us coming of age in the 70’s, it is the end of an era.