Hello, this is Alice. We are reposting this episode today from 2016 to commemorate and celebrate the remarkable life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has died at the age of 87.

Thank you for listening. Long before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a Supreme Court justice, she appeared before the court as a nervous lawyer.

Well, nervous is an understatement.

But then I had this moment when I left out at the bench and thought to myself these are the most important

judges in the United States and I have a captive audience. They have no place to go. Exactly two decades later

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a member of that esteemed captive audience, the

second woman in history to serve on the Supreme Court.

You'll hear the full version of that story later in this episode.

A whole episode devoted to the life lessons of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

I'm Ellis Winkler, and this is what it takes from the Academy of Achievement.

Academy, Dichtis. This child is gifted and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.

If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another job.

It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.

There was no way you knew which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.

Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.

Decide.

My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place, stay out of there.

And then along come these differential experiences, but don't look for, you don't plan for, but boy you better not miss them.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has led in illustrious life and she's an inspiration to lots of people, women in particular.

Some are even a little obsessed with her, wearing t-shirts with her picture, affectionately referring to her as notorious

R.B.G.

So who did she look up to growing up?

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