“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‘Free to be You and Me.’ Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The following quote seems to sum up this year over all.

“This year had been one for the books. And by that, Jason meant a book that got doused in gasoline, set on fire, and kicked over a cliff.”― Katherine McIntyre, Color of a Soul