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.

“Wiesenfeld is part of an evolution toward a policy of neutrality—a policy that will accommodate traditional patterns, but at the same time, one that requires removal of artificial constraints so that men and women willing to explore their full potential as humans may create new traditions by their actions.”

Why would he want to act like a woman? In a way, it was easier to understand why a woman would want to act like a man. RBG firmly believed that for women to be equal, men had to be free.

I might have been on the factory floor as she walked the hallowed halls of the American justice system, but I imagined that men in ties and men in jeans can act just the same.”

“We put down the umbrella because we weren’t getting wet,” RBG said. “But the storm is raging.”