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 GINSBURGI get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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