My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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