At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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Words could paint pictures.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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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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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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 would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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