A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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