I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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