the notorious, glorious, RBG

The notorious, glorious, RBG…

I’ve been thinking a lot about what drove Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s determination and perseverance. What hits me deeply is how she looked at what her mother couldn’t have, and paved the path from there.
“I pray that I may be all that she would have been, had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve, and daughters are cherished much as sons,” RBG once said about her mother, Celia Bader.
I’ve read that her mother excelled exceptionally in school, and once broke her nose when she was reading a book while walking down the street by falling into an open cellar door. But instead of furthering her education, Celia was forced to get a job as a garment worker and pay for her brother’s education at Cornell University. And yet when she passed away the day before RBG’s high school graduation, she left behind a secret college savings for her daughter, and a will to accomplish what Celia had been denied.

I’ve been thinking about how RBG didn’t retire because –well, as she once said “I will do this job as long as I feel I can do it full steam.” But also, I think about how for a woman of her generation, it took so long for her to get her chance and even longer for her to become the person she was supposed to be. And then she changed this country for women. She changed this country for everybody. We've all been impacted by her efforts.

And lastly I’ve been thinking how the work she’s done is not only unfinished, but at risk at being undone.
it’s an honor to keep carrying on the RBG’s legacy. Her memory WILL be a revolution.
You know she fought like hell to the very end. We must keep on fighting for her, because of her.
Here’s an easy way to start: text RBG to 50409. A resistbot will contact your senators with your demand that they do not confirm a new supreme court justice until after inauguration day.
Also VOTE. vote vote vote #votehimout