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.
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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Words could paint pictures.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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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 members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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