The Notorious R.B.G. Speaks: ‘Fight For The Things That You Care About’

Last month US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a.k.a. the Notorious R.B.G. was awarded the Radcliffe Medal from Harvard’s <a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study</a> and she had some things to say to the young ladies out there. It might be hard for us to imagine a time where, say, women serving on a jury would be an option, but not a necessity as a female citizen of the United States. But as recently as the 1970’s, that was exactly the case. “Young women today have a great advantage, and it is that there are no more closed doors. That was basically what the ’70s was all about. Opening doors that had been closed to women,” <a href="http://jezebel.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-tells-women-to-grab-2015-by-the-hor-1708150581" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ginsburg explained</a>. And oh, open doors she did. Before being appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Ginsburg was a law professor, co-founder of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, and an advocate for Smart Girls everywhere. <a href="https://amysmartgirls.com/the-notorious-r-b-g-speaks-fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-cf5aac01e5e7">Click Here</a>