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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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As 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.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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