RBG

I got divorced in 1967. At the time I was the only gainfully employed member of the marriage, and among other bills, I paid the car insurance on both of our cars. State Farm. When I wanted to take his car off the bill because we weren’t married any more, they cancelled my insurance because I wasn’t the ‘head of the household’. I shopped around and ended up getting insurance with Allstate, at the time angry about the unfairness of it, but at some level realizing that was just the way it was.

If I’d gone to Ruth…

Eventually, those kinds of inequities began to go away, thanks in no small part to her. We’re definitely not there yet, but a young woman today can’t imagine all the steps it took to get us to here. Much of that progress–for men and for women–is thanks to Ruth’s tenacity, her eloquence and her precision.

There’s a movie, RBG, that you should watch, so you can get a little better picture. She had the patience and the fortitude and the resilience to fight for fairness as hard as she could for as long as she could. Until she couldn’t any more.

In the jungle, a lion sleeps.