Chicken Underworld

I got to see Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak at Radcliffe yesterday. She is truly an amazing woman. The set-up was a conversation between Justice Ginsburg and two women judges, Sandra Lynch and Nancy Gertner. Journalist Linda Greenhouse facilitated. One of my favorite parts of the conversation was when Greenhouse recounted a press interview Justice Ginsburg did after the State of the Union, in which she was asked why she attended despite her poor health, and Ginsburg replied, "I want the nation to see that there's a woman on the Supreme Court." She also shared her brilliance in a quite humble way as she explored her own path through the cases she had worked on and heard over the years. She truly is an historic figure, and her influence and inspiration on the lives of the other women judges was remarkable. She was also looking small and frail, and I recalled hearing Marie Wilson a few years ago at another conferenceby describing Justice Ginsburg by saying, "she has this frail body holding up that magnificent head of hers." But her intelligence and strength are clearly unwavering even as she faces cancer. I feel incredibly fortunate to have seen and heard her.