When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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