One person, our honoree Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “knocked on closed doors, opened them, and held them open for others,” as the proclamation reads.
At a luncheon on May 29 at Harvard University, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was introduced in this way by Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Lizabeth Cohen.
After receiving the Radcliffe Medal, Ginsburg addressed the audience and gave some inspiring words to the young women in attendance.
She stated, “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you,” when asked what advise she would give to young women today.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thoughts on ‘Fight For The Things You Care About’
After thinking back on her time as a Justice in the 1970s, Ginsburg recalled working on several important cases involving women’s rights.
“The point was to attack a stereotype that prevented women from achieving their full potential,” she explained.
The idea was that male and female activities occurred in different realms. Men were the go-getters and women the homemakers of the planet.
She added that women are in a particularly advantageous position to pursue their goals in the present tense.
Ginsburg argued that young women today had an edge since “there are no more closed doors.” Essentially, that sums up the entire decade of the 1970s. freeing up previously limited avenues for female participation.
A Brief Biography of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A member of the United States Supreme Court from 1993 until her death in 2020, Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/bedr nzbr/ BAY-dr GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist.
To replace retiring justice Byron White, President Bill Clinton nominated her, and she was widely regarded as a moderate consensus-builder at the time.
As the Court swung to the right over time, she moved to the liberal side. After Sandra Day O’Connor, Ginsburg made history as the first Jewish woman and second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Conclusion
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court passed away on September 18 from complications related to metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old.
Even though she is no longer with us, her legacy lives on in the form of her illuminating writings and works of art, for which she became known as the Notorious RBG.
Here are 15 of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s most memorable words on feminism, activism, and love that will (and already have) changed the world.
