The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDon’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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 conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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