Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

Have power and words have consequences.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had many names over her lifetime.

She was born Joan Ruth Bader and was quickly nicknamed Kiki by her older sister Marilyn

before Marilyn died at six years old from meningitis.

She added Ginsburg to her name when she met and fell in love with her champion

and greatest supporter Marty Ginsburg.

Together she and Marty had two children, Jane and James, adding mother to her growing list of names.

She added professor to her name a few years after she graduated from law school.

No law firm in New York would hire her because she was a woman and a mother.

She added author when she became the first co-author of a textbook on sex discrimination and the law.

Eventually she became Judge Ginsburg on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit

before ultimately becoming Justice Ginsburg.

And later in life she garnered the nickname Natorious RBG and she was.

But there's one name in title that she embodied throughout her lifetime from beginning to the very end.

Advocate.

She was an advocate.

An advocate for equality, for dignity, for equal protection under the law.

She was an advocate for justice.

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