When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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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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