Dear Ruth, I Jumped Off the Pedestal Because of You

“Don’t worry your pretty, little head,” They said.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg portrait, 2016, from WikiMedia Commons

Dear Justice Ginsburg,

May I call you Ruth? I want to call you Ruth because I consider you a friend (especially now more than ever). I know you didn’t know me, and I know I could be one of the millions of women who are writing you a letter after your death, but you…