If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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