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    I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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    I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday

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    The I Know This to Be True series is a collection of extraordinary figures from diverse backgrounds answering the same questions, as well as sharing their compelling stories, guiding ideals, and insightful wisdom.

    Throughout her legal career—spanning nearly five decades—Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been an unwavering force for progress and a leading voice for equality and justice.

    With a disarming honesty, Ginsburg discusses everything from gender equality and fitness to literature and the importance of hard work.

    • The inimitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the US Supreme Court, embodies the power of persistence and integrity
    • Here, she reflects on her many years of service to the law, as well as her family life and struggle with cancer
    • The landmark book series brims with messages of leadership, courage, compassion, and hope

    Inspired by Nelson Mandela's legacy and created in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, I Know This to Be True is a global series of books created to spark a new generation of leaders.

    This series offers encouragement and guidance to graduates, future leaders, and anyone hoping to make a positive impact on the world.

    • Royalties from sales of the series support the free distribution of material from the series to the world's developing economy countries
    • Great for those who loved Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela, and My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateMar 24, 2020
    ISBN9781797203393
    I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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    Geoff Blackwell

    Ruth Hobday and Geoff Blackwell are the creative team behind such bestselling projects as Nelson Mandela's Conversations with Myself. Worldwide travelers, they are based in New Zealand.

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      I Know This to Be True - Geoff Blackwell

      Introduction

      When Ruth Bader Ginsburg started Harvard Law School in 1956, she was one of nine women in a class of five hundred men. Only one of the teaching buildings had a women’s bathroom. There was no legislation preventing discrimination in the US, and some law firms wouldn’t even interview women for jobs. It was a different time. Things were tough. But Ginsburg wasn’t swayed.

      Fourteen months after her first child was born, she began her legal studies. She didn’t need a career of her own – her husband, Marty Ginsburg, was earning a law degree and could look forward to a well-paid job – but she valued independence. A desire for autonomy stemmed from her mother, who passed away when Ruth was a teenager. ‘In those ancient days, most parents of girls wanted them to find Prince Charming and live happily ever after. But my mother wanted me to fend for myself.’¹ Taking her mother’s advice, she set about forging her own path in life.

      During the Red Scare of the 1950s,i at a time when many in the US were in the grip of fear and suspicion, she began to consider a career in law. ‘I became interested in the law and in doing something to keep our country in tune with its most basic values – like the right to think, speak and write as one believes.’² This interest was developed even further in the early sixties, during time spent writing a book on Sweden’s judicial system. There, the idea that men were the breadwinners and women the housewives – an idea prevalent in the US – no longer held sway. Journalists for major publications wrote about gender equality as an ideal; an article in the Stockholm Daily questioned why, when both partners had full-time jobs, the woman was still expected to take care of the children, cook dinner and clean the house. In Sweden, Ginsburg came to see the law as a means to advance the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

      A guiding belief in the ideal of equality has framed her life and work. Ending gender discrimination has remained a core focus; in 1970 she co-founded the first US law journal focused solely on women’s rights, later co-authoring the first law school casebook about

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