If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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Words could paint pictures.
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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 would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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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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