• The Mind of RGB
• Toni Messina (bio)

The cover of The Way Women Are, a book containing "the transformative opinions and dissents" of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sleek, smooth, and inviting. It pictures the judge's favorite white jabot collar woven from tiny white beads set again a black background. That's all we need to recognize who this book will be about.

The book, though, is not about RBG's life, background, secret desires, or even a day in the life. It's about how she thought, as detailed through her decisions and briefs written over the decades she's been a litigator arguing in front of the Supreme Court and as a sitting justice.

The editor, former lawyer Cathy Cambron, has compiled and excerpted what she believes are Justice Ginburg's most ground-breaking decisions and dissents in addition to sections from briefs she argued on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

While they cover a variety of subjects as diverse as women's abortion rights and separation of church and state, what they share is a clear-headed, fearless view that the constitution should be applied fairly across the board for Jew, Muslim, female or male. Her writings depict the mind of a judge unafraid to upbraid her brethren's logic and ruffle feathers when an important point needs to be made.

Legal opinions don't make for easy reading. The book is not a synopsis of her greatest hits, but excerpts of actual decisions and briefs which by their very logic-favoring nature do not make for engrossing prose. It's the kind of dense read that pushes law students to develop eight-cup-a-day coffee habits. Yet in spite of the formality—point A leads to point B which leads to point C—each opinion includes a nugget as memorable as any quotable-quote from Shakespeare.

The brief introduction (10 pages of the 284-page book) outlines the trajectory of Ginsberg, nee Joan Ruth Bader, from her birth in Brooklyn in 1933 to her rise through Cornell in the 1950's, to Harvard Law School where she met her husband, to teaching at Columbia law and Rutgers law schools, to volunteering at the ACLU where she co-founded the Women's Rights Project, to her tenure at the U.S. Supreme Court. Hers was not an easy road, confronted with the death of her mom at age sixteen, dealing with her husband's diagnosis of testicular cancer while both were law students, struggling to find a good law job or judicial clerkship upon graduation. According to the book, in 1971, the year she argued her first case in front of the US Supreme Court (Reed v. Reed), only 3% of all attorneys in the country were women.

But information on her stellar rise through the ranks and eventual appointment as the second woman ever on the Supreme Court (after Sandra Day O'Connor) has already been thoroughly explored in books, documentaries, Hollywood movies (On the Basis of Sex [2018]), and through the many interviews she's given. (RBG is not one to shy away from giving her opinion.)

What this book adds, however, is a sampling of her actual words, taken from her decisions, dissents and briefs. It's an up-close view of how her mind works, the acuity of her thinking, the sharpness of her wit, and the ultimate reality that Supreme Court decision-making is a product of nine justices that requires compromise and collegiality.

Because of the book's scope, starting with briefs she wrote fighting for the equal treatment of men and woman in the 1970s through current times with the present Supreme Court make-up, it's often startling and, in my mind, sad to see how her role changed from being that of a leader on issues such as worker's rights, abortion access, equal protection...

• RGB的心
• 托尼·墨西拿（生物）

载有最高法院大法官露丝·巴德·金斯堡（Ruth Bader Ginsburg）的“变革性观点和异议”的书《女性之道》的封面流畅，流畅且引人入胜。这张照片描绘了法官最喜欢的由淡淡的白色小珠织成的白色jabot项圈，再一次变成了黑色背景。这就是我们需要认识这本书的对象的全部。

但是，这本书不是关于RBG的生活，背景，秘密欲望甚至是生活中的一天。这是关于她的想法的，正如她数十年来所作的决定和摘要所详述的那样，她是一名诉讼律师，曾在最高法院和现任大法官面前争论。

编辑，前律师凯茜·坎布隆（Cathy Cambron）除了她代表美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）辩护的摘要中的部分内容外，还汇编并摘录了她认为是金伯格大法官最突破性的决定和异议的内容。

尽管它们涵盖了各种主题，包括妇女的堕胎权，政教分离等，但她们的共同点是头脑清晰，无所畏惧，认为宪法应公平适用于犹太人，穆斯林，女性或男性。她的作品描绘了一位法官的心智，他不畏惧在需要强调重要观点时反省弟兄们的逻辑和粗uffle的羽毛。

法律意见难以理解。这本书不是她最伟大的畅销书的提要，而是一些实际决定和摘要的摘录，这些摘录和陈述本身具有逻辑上的偏爱性，并不能使散漫的论文引人入胜。这种密集的阅读促使法学院的学生养成每天喝八杯咖啡的习惯。尽管有形式，A点引向B点引向C点，但每个观点都包含一个像莎士比亚的任何引语一样令人难忘的词块。

简介（共284页，共10页）概述了金斯伯格（Jins Ruan Bader）的成长轨迹，从1933年在布鲁克林出生到1950年代通过康奈尔大学上升到哈佛法学院，在那里她遇到了丈夫，她曾在哥伦比亚大学法学院和罗格斯大学法学院任教，并在美国公民自由协会（ACLU）自愿创建了妇女权利项目，并在美国最高法院任职。她的道路并不轻松，面临着母亲在16岁时去世的问题，她的丈夫诊断出睾丸癌，而他们俩都是法学院的学生，毕业后都在努力寻找良好的法律工作或司法书记。根据该书，在1971年，即她在美国最高法院审理的第一起案件（Reed诉Reed）的那一年，该国所有律师中只有3％是女性。

但是有关她的出色表现的信息，包括在书刊，纪录片和好莱坞电影中，都曾深入探讨过女性的地位，并最终任命她为最高法院有史以来第二位女议员（仅次于桑德拉·戴·奥康纳）（《基于性别的[2018]] ），并通过多次采访得到了她。（RBG不会回避发表意见。）

然而，这本书是从她的决定，异议和摘要中摘录的，是她实际用词的一个示例。这是对她的思维方式，思维敏锐度，机智的敏锐度以及最高法院的决策是由九位大法官组成的最终现实的近距离看法，这九项正义需要妥协和合议。

由于这本书的范围，从内裤，她写道：争取通过本最高法院化妆当今时代的平等对待男人和女人在20世纪70年代，它往往令人吃惊，在我的脑海里，伤心地看到她的角色从工人权利，堕胎机会，平等保护等问题上的领导人转变为...