A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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