I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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