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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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAs women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen 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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI would not like to be the only woman on the court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReading 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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPromoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI 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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