RIP RBG. She Left Us Good Advice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has departed this world, but left words to guide us. She wrote “advice to the living” a few years ago for the New York Times:

1. Be a little deaf. “I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”
2. Have cheerleaders. Her husband Marty was “the first reader and critic of articles, speeches and briefs” she wrote. As her advocate, he “gained the unqualified support of [their] state senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and enlist[ed] the aid of many members of the legal academy and practicing bar.” Ron Klain, then associate White House counsel, concurred: “I would say definitely and for the record, though Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have been picked for the Supreme Court anyway, she would not have been picked for the Supreme Court if her husband had not done everything he did to make it happen.”
3. Persevere. She won for us “the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.” She tells us to continue fighting for justice: “Most people in poverty in the United States and the world over are women and children, women’s earnings here and abroad trail the earnings of men with comparable education and experience, our workplaces do not adequately accommodate the demands of childbearing and child rearing, and we have yet to devise effective ways toward off sexual harassment at work and domestic violence in our homes. I am optimistic, however, that movement toward enlistment of the talent of all who compose ‘We, the people,’ will continue.”