When Kalina Newman heard that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died last Friday night, she and her boyfriend immediately left the restaurant where they were having dinner, bought some flowers and went to the US Supreme Court to join the crowd of people honoring the 87-year-old associate justice.

“As soon as I saw the candles and felt how peaceful it was, I began to cry,” Newman told CNN.

Ginsburg, who embraced the nickname “The Notorious RBG” late in life, became a role model to generations because of her sharp wit, her legal knowledge and her fierce dissents.

CNN asked people to share what Ginsburg meant to them and tributes have come in from all over the world.

Many saw her as a real-life super hero — complete with her own action figures — who stood up for the rights of women, minorities and the LGBTQ+ community.

Some said they didn’t agree with the liberal justice’s positions, but admired her for maintaining a long friendship with late Justice Antonin Scalia, despite their ideological difference.

Read some of the stories you shared with us below: