You can’t have it all, all at once.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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