I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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 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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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