对RBG的纪念

对RBG的好奇是这两年里女儿们对她的热爱引起的。最近她去世, 看到许多人在网上哀悼，把她做为自己的楷模，视她为英雄。所以前些日子在图书馆找书时，预订了这本书。

Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

昨晚刚好发现可以借了。一听就很喜欢。这本书，像有的书评说的，适合对RBG不太了解的人。

刚刚听了前两三章，不过想记下一些。

“Ginsburg’s central premise is that antiabortion laws, like employment discrimination against pregnant women, are based on “stereotypical assumptions” about women as caregivers. Today, pro-choice scholars, advocates, and citizens, including millions of young women, have embraced her emphasis on equality, rather than privacy, as the soundest constitutional foundation for the right to choose.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

“She viewed her advocacy not as a crusade for abstract principles but as a fight for justice for individual men and women disadvantaged by laws that discriminated on the basis of sex.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

“My idea of how choice should have developed was not a privacy notion, not a doctor’s right notion, but a woman’s right to control her own destiny, to be able to make choices without a Big Brother state telling her what she can and cannot do.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

“So, my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan’s words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

记得在听“The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court" 的时候，就有些迷惑，为什么Roe v. Wade要从保护隐私这个角度来判决。。也不太明白为什么这个判决之后关于流产这个问题还有那么多法律纠纷，那么政治化。

这本书对这个问题的回顾，和RBG的阐述，对解我的惑很有帮助。。

还有她的 “take the court step by step" approch。她认为不论是立法还是依法判决，都是要跟随社会的发展，而社会的发展是需要人们自己的争取。

所谓self-govern，就是这个道理吧。。

即使从扫盲的角度我也很喜欢这本书。对了解RGB很有帮助，应该对了解最高法院也有帮助。