It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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 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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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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