So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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