Be independent and be a lady.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor 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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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