Recent pop culture popularity aside, the impact that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on women was profound, and spanned age groups and backgrounds.
As a litigator who fought tenaciously for the courts to recognize equal rights for women, one case at a time, and later as the second woman to sit on the hallowed bench of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg left a legacy of achievement in gender equality that had many women grasping for words this weekend to describe her significance to them.
“For the first time I felt the Constitution was written for me,” said feminist leader Gloria Steinem.
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