Ruth Bader Ginsburg's and my life have spanned the same arc of history. I faced the same discrimination as she did. One of my classmates at Northwestern was able to quip: "Only ugly girls go to grad school."
I have so much admiration for the few of us who insisted on professional careers. Teaching and social work were the most attainable. But one became a chemist and another an M.D. And, I think it's fun to remember that Playboy magazine did hire women for creative jobs.
It wasn't until much later that I was able to have a creative job too. Most of it was me of course, but I was able to fall in with changing times. Times that were secured for me by the work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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