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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGOur system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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