In the film, she recalls how professors never called on female students because they believed women wouldn’t be able to stand the pressure. She was one of only nine women admitted in 1956. Ginsburg graduated from Cornell and went on to Harvard Law School. I’ve always been a fan, but after watching this film, I’m even more appreciative of all that she has done. She won many landmark cases in the 1970s, as I learned from RBG, a Magnolia Pictures documentary about Justice Ginsburg, which is in select theaters May 4. She wrote a book too, My Own Words, with Mary Hartnett, in 2016.īut long before millennials had taken up the RBG worship–indeed, before they were even born–Ginsberg was fighting to end gender discrimination. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, in 1993, by president Bill Clinton, is known as the Notorious RBG, with a 2015 book, a Tumblr and merch devoted to giving the 85-year-old the props she deserves. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows that you can speak softly and still be a trailblazing, change-making badass.

Justice Ginsburg mid workout routine in RBG, a Magnolia Pictures release.

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