I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWho will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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