INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE: RUTH BADER GINSBURG

It is such sad news today to hear about the passing of a true inspirational legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I drew this portrait of her quite a while ago to put in my etsy shop but decided instead to offer this to you to download for free. Print it big and put it in a frame to celebrate a life dedicated to the pursuit of true change in a world where sometimes politics makes that hard. I’m going to share with you some RBG things to and read, watch and learn and to adorn your house and walls and person to celebrate a legend of our lifetime.

RIP RBG.

Find the free download of my RBG portrait here…

Some facts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg studied at Cornell University on a full scholarship.
Ruth was influenced by two professors whom she met at Cornell: the author Vladimir Nabokov, who shaped her thinking about writing, and the constitutional lawyer Robert Cushman, who inspired her to pursue a legal career.
Martin (“Marty”) Ginsburg and Ruth were married in June 1954, nine days after she graduated from Cornell.
Ruth was the first woman to serve on the editorial staff of the Harvard Law Review and she did this while continuing her studies in law and looking after their daughter Jane and looking after her husband who had been diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Ruth completed her legal education at Columbia Law School, graduating in a tie for first place in her class in 1959.
Ginsburg taught at Rutgers University Law School and at Columbia, where she became the school's first female tenured professor.
In 1972 Ruth became founding counsel of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and co-authored a law-school casebook on gender discrimination.
Ruth was the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
Ginsburg and O’Connor jointly decided that they would use jabots to carve out a visual space of their own in what would otherwise be a sea of black robes and ties. Ginsburg broke out one of two collars on decision days: A lace collar featuring gold trim and charms, served as her majority-opinion collar, while a mirrored bib necklace is what she wore when her side had come up short.
Despite their opposing ideologies, Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia possessed an intense mutual respect for one another, a deep respect for the Court’s role, and, perhaps most importantly, both recognized that they made the other better. the friends’ love of Opera, plus their “odd couple” reputation, inspired one law student to compose an entire (satirical) opera about them.
For the last 20-plus years of her life, Ginsburg worked out twice weekly with a personal trainer - She regularly did more than 20 push-ups, and all while listening to classical music.
Named one of Forbes Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women from 2004 through 2011.
Ginsburg is considered to have been instrumental in the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges, having shown public support for the idea in past years by officiating same-sex marriages and by challenging arguments against it during the early proceedings of the case.
She gave her seal of approval for Kate McKinnon’s sassy portrayal of her on Saturday Night Live, noting, "I would like to say 'Ginsburned' sometimes to my colleagues."
Ginsburg endured several health scares since being appointed to the bench, undergoing surgery for colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. She was hospitalized in November 2018 after falling in her office and fracturing three ribs.
Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, at her home in Washington, D.C., from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.