If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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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 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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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