Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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