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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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