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 GINSBURGWomen’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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