How would you describe a woman so incredible that she had justice running through her veins?

Would you call her inspiring, galvanizing or simply exhilarating?

Or would you fear her simply because of the power held within herself?

The woman who ignited the fire within young and older women — and all ages in between — set the prime example of what power truly looked like within a woman.

An example of what a woman looks like when she stands up to her fellow man. 

Her name is Ruth Bader Ginsberg. And she was the Notorious R.B.G.

Ginsberg died on Sept. 18 due to metastatic pancreas cancer.

Ginsberg lived an incredible life fighting for those who couldn’t fight for themselves and using her voice for those who couldn’t yell in the face of their oppressors.

She fought for women, LGBTQ+, people of color and anybody else who wasn’t allowed to simply live their lives due to being who they were.

Ginsberg graduated at the top of her class at Harvard and Columbia. She was the first class of nine females at Harvard. 

Later she became a professor at Columbia and was the first female professor with tenure.

During her schooling, while attending her own classes, she also took care of her cancer-stricken husband, attending his law classes and writing his papers, while also taking care of her infant daughter. 

Despite her incredible academic achievements, she did not receive a job offer out of college based on one thing.

Her gender.

This was the first match to strike to the fire. 

She began working to defeat the sex discrimination barrier.

Working as a professor of sex discrimination, she began working on the “ACLU’s (American Civil Liberties Union) Women’s Rights Project.” Later filing under the Equal Protection Clause.

She began arguing cases on sex-based discrimination in front of the Supreme Court. Winning a majority.

This was all before her life as a judge, which still baffles most men in the justice system.

She soon moved to the Supreme Court and began to start working. 

All of the following was what she achieved through her time as a Supreme Court Justice:

• Defeated all-male admission to colleges (the United States v. Virginia)
• Pushed and allowed same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges)
• Fiercely protected Roe v. Wade (protection of a woman’s right to an abortion and reproductive healthcare) 
• Fought for mental health and community living rights (Olmstead v. LC)
• Played a Hand in striking down legislation that allows noncitizens to be removed from the country (Sessions v. Dimaya)
• Fought abortion bills that harmed women. (Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt)

And so much more.

She was an inspiration to the next generation and more generations to come.

But now you must not mourn.

Now you must continue her good fight and fight for those who can’t.

Take the torch of justice and light fire to the oppression. 

The pain.

The bigotry.

And burn it all down with Ginsberg’s torch.

“Fight for the thing you care about, but do it in a way that leads others to join you,” Ginsberg said.

The justice that once ran in Ginsberg’s veins now runs in ours.

It’s time to celebrate and live through the words of the Notorious RBG.