Be independent and be a lady.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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