The Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg was born on March 15th, 1933 and passed away on September 18, 2020. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and later attended Cornell University for college and Harvard University and Columbia University for law school, where she graduated as joint first in her class. RBG spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She also worked as a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civic procedure. As one of the few women in her field, RBG was a voluntary attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was a member of its board of directors. I
Is it emotionally stunted of me not to want to do anything I don’t want to do? A part of me thinks that I am one step above a petulant child (a small step, if that) because there are many facets of adult life that I simply refuse to accept as part of my reality. For example, I don’t do housework. I pay other people to do all of my cleaning and, truth be told, most of my cooking. I throw shit away. Shit that I really should hold onto (like bank statements and insurance forms and paid bill receipts) because I refuse to file. The trash can can count as a filing cabinet, right? I am careless about my carbon footprint, stay up past my bedtime, wear sandals well into the winter, eat in front
