She was a feminist icon and only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. This is her story.
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00:00In my lifetime, I expect there will be, among federal judicial nominees,
00:07based on the excellence of their qualifications, as many sisters as brothers-in-law.
00:30Women and men working together should help make the society a better place than it is now.
00:48Marty was a boy like none I had ever met. This was a young man who really cared that I had a brain.
01:01We felt that all eyes were on us, whether it was so or not,
01:05that if we were called on in class and we gave a dumb answer,
01:11people would think, well, what could you expect from a woman?
01:16So we were super prepared.
01:18If you got the job, you generally performed at least as well, in many cases better, than the men,
01:35but you needed to get that first job to be set on your way.
01:39This regulation, if you're pregnant, you're out unless you have an abortion,
01:50violated the equal protection principle, because no man was ordered out of service
01:59because he had been the partner in the conception.
02:10He was determined to appoint members of minority groups and women in numbers,
02:16not as one-at-a-time curiosities.
02:23I, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, do solemnly swear...
02:31People ask me, when would you be satisfied with the number of women on the court?
02:35When there are nine.
02:40I was quite wiped out, and Marty said, Ruth, you look like a survivor of a concentration camp.
02:57You've got to do something to build yourself up.
03:10This is my dissenting color.
03:13Why?
03:14It's black and grim.
03:17But it sparkles, too, so it gets attention.
03:21Victoria's B.I.G. and I had something in common.
03:27We were both born and bred in Brooklyn, New York.
03:35I will do this job as long as I live.
03:38I'm going to do it.
03:39I'm going to do it.
03:40I'm going to do it.
03:41I'm going to do it.
03:42I'm going to do it.
03:43I'm going to do it.
03:44I'm going to do it.
03:46I will do this job as long as I can do it full steam.
03:50And at my age, that means you take it year by year.