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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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