{"id":31981,"date":"2020-09-19T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=31981"},"modified":"2020-09-19T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T07:20:02","slug":"rbg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/rbg\/","title":{"rendered":"RBG: Glorious, Notorious — and Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

So sad. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the glorious, notorious RBG has died at the age of 87. I’ll miss her elfin, whip-smart, lovable presence on the Supreme Court — and on the pop culture scene.<\/p>\n

In her memory I’ve already ordered up some RBG memorabilia. First, a kid’s book to be sent to my granddaughters. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark<\/em> written by Debbie Levy and illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley.<\/p>\n

And for me, a stylish RBG mug, while supplies last.<\/p>\n

At 4 and 1, my granddaughters are not too young for RBG fandom, imo. I’m hoping they’ll feel about her the way my daughter felt about the Little Mermaid when she was a kid: deeply.<\/p>\n

I’d like RBG to become an indelible part of their small psyches. Why?<\/p>\n

Because she was a smart, successful woman?<\/p>\n

Because she was a justice of the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n

Because she knew how to be friends with a justice — Antonin Scalia — whose legal outlook she did not share?<\/p>\n

Because she stuck up for women’s rights?<\/p>\n

Because she used her razor sharp wit to oppose the crippling of the 1965 Voting Rights Act? (It was “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Yes. All of that.<\/p>\n

I’d like my little granddaughters to revere RBG because she was smart, compassionate, principled and accomplished. But most of all I’d like them to treasure her because she was a rock star and she was old<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I hope my granddaughters can look forward to a life like<\/a> Ginsburg’s — a rich, productive youth and middle age, followed by a few good years of fun, smart, lovable and old.<\/p>\n

Because it ain’t over till it’s over.<\/p>\n

More on that getting older thing at “I’m 78 and I Still Have a Lot of Living to Do.”<\/a>\u00a0 Also, “Wisdom From My Father — Or, How to Sweep the Kitchen Floor.”<\/a>\u00a0 And here’s a story from the pre-RBG days, before many of the rights women take for granted these days were clarified under the law: “Unmarried and Pregnant in Mid-Century America.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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