If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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