I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDissents speak to a future age.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human 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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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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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 emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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