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Ginsburg's impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds
Read full article: Ginsburg's impact on women spanned age groups, backgroundsYounger women and girls say they were inspired by the late justice's achievements, her intellect and her fierce determination as she pursued her career. โShe was my teacher in so many ways,โ said Gloria Steinem, the nationโs most visible feminist leader, in an interview. Younger women and girls also say they were inspired by the justice's achievements, her intellect and her fierce determination as she pursued her career. Julie Cohen and Betsy West, who co-directed โRBG,โ saw firsthand how women of all ages quickly identified with Ginsburg. But also, Cohen added: โShe became a huge symbolic figure for young women and even girls in a way that we hadnโt anticipated.
A rapper, an elevator and an elephant: stories Ginsburg told
Read full article: A rapper, an elevator and an elephant: stories Ginsburg toldThis image provided by the Supreme Court shows Ruth Bader Ginsburg types while on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in Italy in 1977. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, on Sept. 18, 2020, the Supreme Court announced. Ginsburg liked to note they had one important thing in common. โThey were much more reluctant to take a man away from his work than a woman," Ginsburg liked to explain. Ginsburg would sometimes ask audiences: โWhatโs the difference between a bookkeeper in New Yorkโs Garment District and a U.S. Supreme Court justice?"
Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG
Read full article: Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBGThe Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)WASHINGTON โ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at her home in Washington at 87, the court said. Late in her court tenure, she became a social media icon, the Notorious RBG, a name coined by a law student who admired Ginsburgโs dissent in a case cutting back on a key civil rights law. Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cancer the night before Ginsburg, then 17, was to graduate from high school.