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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEvery girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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 think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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