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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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