An exuberant U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg exclaimed “I love my job” at a public appearance Thursday, sounding not at all like someone who is even beginning to consider retirement.

Nourished by a standing ovation from hundreds of Georgetown University students, Ginsburg emphasized the positive, recounting stories from her early years as a lawyer fighting for gender equality for the American Civil Liberties Union. Ginsburg has been a popular speaker at college campuses nationwide for years. 

Ginsburg spoke fondly at Georgetown of meeting her future husband Martin as a Cornell University undergraduate as “the first boy I had ever known who cared that I had a brain.” Martin Ginsburg died in 2010.

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