Work for the things that you care about.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIn the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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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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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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