Non-fiction continues in my life, as I checked out Notorious RGB this past week. Right up my alley, she is a bodacious woman who has spent her life trying to protect individual’s rights under the law. This
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book, which had been on my TBR list, was the perfect read after Men Explain Things to Me and A Story of a Happy Marriage. Both of these books had been about standing up for your rights, your voice, and your choices, be they conventional or not. RBG is the beacon of this. She has been fighting sexism for over 50 years for both men and women. The story of how she led her life, and her passion for representing all who needed to be protected will be her legacy. As she remains a leader of the left, strongly believing in the constitutional rights of people to be heard and counted, she is a voice in the minority too often. As the men on the court continue to make decisions that are pro-business, they don’t understand the ramifications that some of the decisions made have upon women. Until the court is filled with people of various backgrounds, and different upbringings, there will be blind spots in the interpretation of the words written so long ago – “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union….” We are still trying to build the union more perfectly. For this, we need to learn from all who have arrived on these shores for a better life, regardless of where they have come from or when they arrived.
The new book I have just started A Woman of Value Clara Barton and the Civil War is takes me back to another time when women were fighting for the right to make choices on what their life should be. She chose not to marry but remained careful of conventions to not appear in public without a male escort. She accepted a job at the patent office, for a fraction of what men were paid. She kept pushing, but within the parameters that would not embarrass her family. As we continue to move forward down the road ahead, as Rebecca Slotnik stated, we are walking from the path of those who came before. While we continue to see setbacks, we must recognize how far we have come in life. As Notorious RBG has shown, a slow and steady pace will help us achieve a better world for us all.
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