Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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 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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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