Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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