Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 87 years old when she passed away on Friday, surrounded by family at her home in Washington, D.C.

Only hours later, hundreds of mourners gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court. And some of them said the

Kaddish, that's the prayer of mourning on what was also the first night of the Jewish New Year,

a day for hope and new beginnings. There's going to be a lot to say in the coming days and the

weeks about all the work that

is ahead of us to honor Justice Ginsburg's memory, her legacy, her dreams.

But for now, we just wanted to share her voice with you.

In late January, I sat down for an almost hour-long interview with Justice Ginsburg.

It was the greatest joy and privilege of my 20-plus years covering the Supreme Court.

The conversation was part of our special project, tracing the lives of the other women who attended Harvard Law School with her.

The justice was funny and precise and reflective and also just really

eerily certain that this whole constitutional democracy thing is going to work out in the form of a more perfect union.

Slate Plus members heard this interview in August as part of our feature on the women of Ginsburg's class.

We are now making it publicly available for the very first time.

You're all arriving at Harvard in 1956.

Did you even see women when you were first sort of moving in and settling in and walking around, or was it just a sea of men?

There were two women in my section, just Trudy and Ginny Davis later, Norton.

So when I went to class, there were the two other women in the class.

And then I think our section was something like 125.

But it was a jump up from Marty's class.

There were five women in his class.

There were more of the first year that they took women. And did they deliberately

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