Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Irin Carmon

The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.

RBG firmly believed that for women to be equal, men had to be free. Decades later, an unnamed guest at a dinner party told the New York Times that RBG had fiercely interrupted another guest who mentioned she’d worked on behalf of “women’s liberation.” “She turned on him and said, ‘It is not women’s liberation; it is women’s and men’s liberation.’

RBG did not apologize for the ACLU, for being a feminist, or for supporting abortion rights. “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity,” she said simply. “It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”

people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: “When there are nine.”

“Get it right and keep it tight.”