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Ruth was born on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the second daughter of Nathan and Celia Bader, she grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. Ginsburg's mother, who was a major influence in her life, taught her the value of independence and a good education.

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Once receiving her bachelors Ruth went to Harvard. Ruth learned to balance life as a mother and her new role as a law student. She also encountered a very male dominated, hostile environment, with only eight other females in her class of more than 500. Ruth pressed on and excelled academically, eventually becoming the first female member of the prestigious Harvard Law Review.

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Ruth Ginsburg envisioned that men and women would "create new traditions by their actions. The ACLU Women's Rights Project was born in 1972 under Ginsburg's leadership to remove these barriers on sex discrimination and open opportunities.

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“I many times said that Marty Ginsburg was the first boy I met who cared that I had a brain,” she said. Her husband made it his mission to secure her nomination on the Supreme Court. “Well, he was my campaign manager,” Ruth told Totenberg in 2018 He has always supported Ruth and encouraged her to follow her dreams.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, at her home in Washington, D.C., from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

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In 1980 President Carter appointed Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She served there until she was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 by President Clinton, selected to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White. President Clinton wanted a replacement with the intellect and political skills to deal with the more conservative members of the Court.