Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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Words could paint pictures.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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