The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDepriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG