Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was a Fighter, But I Feel Defeated

When my 10-year-old daughter asked why I was crying, I couldn’t do much else but put my face in my hands — a weak attempt to hide my hurt from a kid who has already seen her parents at their most stressed and bereft these past few months. I left it to her father to explain who Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, why she was so important to women, and why the loss was so great that her usually-verbose mother couldn’t seem to get a word out without sobbing. In the coming days we’ll read about Justice Ginsburg’s remarkable life, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">how she forever changed the United States and how its legal system treats women</a>, and what her death means for a country less than two months away from its presidential election. <a href="https://gen.medium.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-was-a-fighter-but-i-feel-defeated-c5506704f7c5">Learn More</a>