RBG Was A Badass. She Was Also A Shitty Cook.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Ruth Bader Ginsburg since her passing.

I knew she was a trailblazer, but I didn’t know a whole lot about her specifically.

I’ve learned a lot in the last few days about how she was a champion for women’s rights.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the most intelligent, ballsy, accomplished and influential women to ever grace this planet.

She was a tiny little woman who was intimidated by no one.

She was a true badass.

But there are two things that really stand out to me in all the reading I have done since she died, and they have nothing to do with the law.

She had plenty of faults.

In this article from Variety, she shared this story about her daughter, Jane:

Jane was 14 months old when I started law school. There was a break in my day so I worked very hard until 4 o’clock in the afternoon, then I came home and it was Jane’s time. So I would play with this little child and then by the time Jane went to bed, earlier than most children, then I was happy to go back to work. Also I realized there was something else in life beside studying hard in law school. I realized that in a devastating way when this little child of mine was creeping along the floor and (suddenly) she has a mouth full of mothballs. I had just put some sweaters away in the drawer. I had to take her to the Cambridge City Hospital to get her stomach pumped. I can remember hearing her screaming. That really brought home to me that there are things in life other than law school. Each part of my life was a respite from the other. Taking care of Jane was fun and reading to her was fun. Two totally different lives that I was living at the time, each one was a respite from the other.

Each part of my life was a respite from the other.

YES.

So often we moms get wrapped up in being moms.

We lose track of everything else.

We put pressure on ourselves to be ON at all times in the mom department.

We don’t have to be on at all times in every aspect of our lives. 

We can want a break and we can take a break from mom mode.

We can have different important facets of our lives.

They aren’t just okay.

They are kind of required.

Just as importantly to remember, badass, trailblazing, super successful, smart-as-shit Harvard graduate moms have kids who eat mothballs and have to take a trip to the ER.

We all have regrettable parenting moments. ALL OF US.

Even the Notorious RBG.

She also reminded me of the very important lesson that we also all have areas of strength and we all have areas of weakness.

RBG’s kids weren’t afraid to throw their mom under the bus in this article from the NY Post:

 “My father did the cooking and my mother did the thinking,” her daughter, Jane, jokes. “To this day,” son James says, “I can’t eat swordfish after what she did to it.” Marty confirms this: “Ruth is no longer permitted in the kitchen, by the demand of our children, who have taste.”

RBG was a shitty cook!

She didn’t beat herself up over it and she didn’t give a flying f*ck!

And you shouldn’t either.

You don’t have to be great at everything.

And everyone messes up.

Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Thanks for ALL the lessons RBG.

You will be deeply, deeply missed.

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