Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Irin Carmon

the reference to the 300-pound deceased rapper Notorious B.I.G. was both tongue-in-cheek and admiring. The humor was in the contrasts—the elite court and the streets, white and black, female and male, octogenarian and died too young. The woman who had never much wanted to make a stir and the man who had left his mark. There were similarities too. Brooklyn. Like the swaggering lyricist, this tiny Jewish grandmother who demanded patience as she spoke could also pack a verbal punch.

“Actually, there is no biological connection whatsoever between the function of giving birth to and nursing a child and the function of washing its clothes, preparing its food, and trying to bring it up to be a good and harmonious person,” Moberg wrote. “Both men and women have one main role: that of being human beings.”

We still have a long way to go. How is it that some cultures/contries have this, and others don't. Are we still in the Middle Ages and don't know it?

“Sex, like race, is a visible, immutable characteristic bearing no necessary relationship to ability.”