I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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 don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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