I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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