In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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