Happy birthday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
The iconic Supreme Court Justice turned 84 years old on Wednesday—and the world is celebrating the milestone with her.
She received birthday tweets from her fellow Washingtonians.
Happy Birthday to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — the #NotoriousRBG. pic.twitter.com/wl1gCF2umN
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) March 15, 2017
All the way to those in Hollywood.
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And lots of her biggest fans.
And those with some pretty epic memes (and GIFs!)
Happy 84th birthday to Justice Ginsburg, aka @notoriousrbg. This is my favorite vintage photo of her, in her 30s pic.twitter.com/AonNfcC4pr
— Irin Carmon (@irin) March 15, 2017
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @scotusginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg!! MANY MORE!!!!!
— Suzi Neft (@squizee1218) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/ValerieHeruska/status/842013110668001281
HBD RBG pic.twitter.com/hCPaSXtsCZ
— ruds, aspiring tim walz
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(@RC_Cola_Fan) March 15, 2017
We made the #RBG guide to aging, because 84 is the new 25. #HappyBirthday #RuthBaderGinsburg https://t.co/XizNzlNJG1 pic.twitter.com/rHbes0En15
— VICE Health (@vicehealth) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/jessaforrester/status/842054296992665600
Happy 84th to the #OG #bosslady #NotoriousRBG (please stay with us forever and ever) pic.twitter.com/1fSSIHuzIF
— Dez (@dezanutes) March 15, 2017
Of course, some people not only sent her birthday wishes, but wishes of good health … for at least the next four years.
Happy Birthday RBG! Our Warrior! Be well…..we need you! pic.twitter.com/8voBD9vc7M
— Uppity Woman Supports Ukraine! (@UppityWomanBlog) March 15, 2017
Happy birthday RBG!!! May you live forever and ever and ever. https://t.co/Qg2AbPNMUZ
— Vicki
(@vickikolomensky) March 15, 2017
Happy freaking Birthday RBG! Please stay healthy (especially for the next 4 years) ♥️ pic.twitter.com/yDiCZEeOO3
— archived (@braidsnglasses) March 15, 2017
Happy birthday to the Notorious RBG. May you live forever.
— Steve Smith
(@stevesmithis) March 15, 2017
Ginsburg—also known as “RBG”—gained her notorious reputation for her witty one-liners, her scathing dissents, and poster-worthy quotes. Oh, and her commitment to courtroom style.
Here, a few of the quotes that earned her that reputation.
“So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
—On her dream of an all-female Supreme Court, in 2012, to The Guardian
“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.”
—On the advice she received from her mother, Celia Bader
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“Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.”
—On reproductive rights, in 2009, to The New York Times
“Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”
—On gender equality, in 2001, to The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
“I was a law school teacher. And that’s how I regard my role here with my colleagues, who haven’t had the experience of growing up female and don’t fully appreciate the arbitrary barriers that have been put in women’s way.”
—On educating her fellow justices, in 2015, to Bloomberg
“I don’t know how many meetings I attended in the ’60s and the ’70s, where I would say something, and I thought it was a pretty good idea. Then somebody else would say exactly what I said. Then people would become alert to it, respond to it. It can happen even in the conferences in the court. When I will say something — and I don’t think I’m a confused speaker — and it isn’t until somebody else says it that everyone will focus on the point.”
—On making your voice heard, in 2009, to USA Today
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“I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‘Free to be You and Me.’ Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s okay too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers.”
—On how she defines feminism, in 2012, to Makers