Thread by @JJohnsonLaw

“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Gloria Steinem on RBG: "the closest thing to a super hero I know."

“It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.”

“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.”

“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”

“America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty...She lifts her lamp and welcomes people, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.”

“How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.”

“Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.”

“When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.”

“All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.”

“Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.”

Thank you, Justice Bader Ginsburg, for opening the doors for those of us who followed. Thank you for forcing some of those shoes off of some of our necks.

You made it all possible. You will be so very missed. 💔