Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Words could paint pictures.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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