I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the 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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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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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