I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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