My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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Words could paint pictures.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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