I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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’m not very good at promotion.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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