It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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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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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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 think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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