People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDissents speak to a future age.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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