Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Irin Carmon

“So it was that ten years of my life that I devoted to litigating cases about—I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.” —RBG, 2010

RBG looked the justices in the eye and quoted Sarah Grimké, the abolitionist and advocate for women’s suffrage. “She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity,” RBG said. “She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.’”