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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGChoosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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.
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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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