I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAs society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Words could paint pictures.
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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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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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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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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