My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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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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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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