She’s become what we dream of for our toddler daughters. Today, more than ever, women starved for models of female influence, authenticity, dignity, and voice hold up an octogenarian justice as the embodiment of hope for an empowered future. Beyond the movies ( RBG, released in May, and On the Basis of Sex, out in December) and the biographies, not to mention the memes and T-shirts and mugs that proliferate like lace-collared mushrooms, Ginsburg at 85 is also the closest thing America has to the consummate anti–Donald Trump. She has rapidly become-in a time that craves heroines-the American ideal of power and authority for millions of women and girls. ![]() ![]() Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not just having a “moment” in American feminist culture.
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