My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI 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.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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Words could paint pictures.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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