Lydia

“Generally, change in our society is incremental, I think. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
― 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

“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

“6/17/10 My dearest Ruth—You are the only person I have loved in my life, setting aside, a bit, parents and kids and their kids, and I have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at Cornell some 56 years ago. What a treat it has been to watch you progress to the very top of the legal world!! I will be in JH Medical Center until Friday, June 25, I believe, and between then and now I shall think hard on my remaining health and life, and whether on balance the time has come for me to tough it out or to take leave of life because the loss of quality now simply overwhelms. I hope you will support where I come out, but I understand you may not. I will not love you a jot less.
Marty
-- Handwritten letter from Marty to Ruth”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg