I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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 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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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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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I 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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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