We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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