The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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