Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou can disagree without being disagreeable.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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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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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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