Women all over the world are mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Women all over the world spent Friday and Saturday morning Ruth Bader Ginsburg since the announcement of her death.
• Ginsburg's legal career was marked by a series of arguments advancing women's rights and gender equality.
• Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice hailed as a feminist icon, died Friday night at age 87 from complications due to metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Women all over the world have been mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg since the late Friday announcement of her death.

Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice hailed as a feminist icon, died Friday night at 87 from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court said.

She had become a symbol of American pop culture, serving as the inspiration behind several books, movies, and dolls. On "Saturday Night Live," Kate McKinnon portrayed her as a feisty, tenacious spirit who delivered devastating "Gins-burns."

Her legal career was marked by a series of arguments advancing women's rights and gender equality. As an attorney, Ginsburg took on status quo laws that discriminated against women as jurors and estate owners.

In 1971, Ginsburg wrote up a brief for a case arguing that Idaho was discriminating against women as estate owners. A law in Idaho said that "males must be preferred to females" in deciding estate ownership, but Ginsburg's brief helped changed it.

Years later, Ginsburg argued against a Missouri law that allowed women to opt out of jury duty in the 1979 case Duren v. Missouri, meaning women made up less than 15% of all jurors. Ginsburg won the case, arguing that service done by women as jurors was just as valuable as that done by men.

As a Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg challenged an all-male admissions policy at Virginia Military Institute, delivered a scathing dissent of a majority decision to award a victory to a company engaging in gender pay disparity, and gave strong remarks in favor of accessibility of abortions in Texas. Opinions like these positioned her as one of the most left-leaning and feminist justices on the bench.

"Sometimes life changes because of law and sometimes because of culture. RBG did both," said Linda Hirshman, author of "Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World."

After her death, women lawmakers, celebrities, and supporters reacted with shock, grief, and messages of power.

Here's what women all over the world have been saying:

Emily Ladau, writer and disability rights activist in New York

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"As a disabled woman, I celebrate many of her powerful opinions and dissents — especially the opinion she wrote for Olmstead v. L.C. in 1999, which declared that disabled people have a right under the Americans with Disabilities Act to receive state-funded supports and services in their communities rather than in segregated institutional settings. This decision was just one of many ways Justice Ginsburg truly did center justice for all."

Tara Braco, producing artistic director of Poetic People Power in New York

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in October 2019.      Erin Clark for The Boston Globe via Getty

"In addition to all her remarkable work on women's rights, RBG showed women that you don't need to be loud or big to be effective. And her dedication showed women that advocating for justice is a life-long commitment. Not just something that starts or stops with one administration."

Lauren Dana, freelance writer and editor in New York

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg is cheered as she arrives before President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, in the House of Representatives Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.      George Bridges/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

"As a 20-something-year old Jewish woman, I — like millions of others — have idolized RBJ. Not only was she extremely proud to embrace her Judaism which, in a world full of hate and anti-Semitism, was refreshing and inspiring. I will continue to utilize my voice to advocate for others for years to come — without her, I wouldn't have that courage."