Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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