Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGLegislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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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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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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