Lydia

“So when RBG was asked how she had managed to have such an extraordinary marriage, she often answered by saying that Marty himself was extraordinary, and he saw the same in her.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Anyway, hope springs eternal. If I lose today, there’s hope that tomorrow will be better.” —RBG, 2012”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“He’s never been in awe of anybody. He wooed and won her by convincing her how much he respected her.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses. "No advanced step take by women has been so bitterly contested as that of speaking in public," Susan B. Anthony said in 1900. "For nothing which they have attempted, not even to secure the suffrage, have they been so abused, condemned and antagonized." Or as Mary Beard put it last year, "We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America