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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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