If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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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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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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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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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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