I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEach part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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