I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
—Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837
As the United States Su reme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting o inions and ferocious 20- ush-u workouts have earned this tiny, soft-s oken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six ivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Su reme Court blind to sexism.
Now 84, and still ins ired by the lawyers who defended free s eech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her assionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and un recedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land
