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newyorker:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the bench twenty-five years ago today, but she was a groundbreaking litigator for women’s rights long before then. Her greatest legacy may even be in the cases that she argued as an advocate before what was then an all-male Supreme Court—and won. Click the link in our bio to see images of the Justice growing up, from a young girl in Brooklyn to a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers) to a young mother and the phenomenon we now know as R.B.G.

westwallys:

There are a hundred and seventy-eight laws that differentiate on the basis of sex. Women can’t work overtime. We have to get credit cards in our husbands names. We’re not allowed to work in the mines. This is a man’s world.

You think you can change the country? You should look to her generation. They’re taking to the streets. Protests are important, but changing the culture it means nothing if the law doesn’t change. 

Who did you say your name was? Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

On The Basis Of Sex (2018), dir. Mimi Leder.

Notorious RBG!!!