Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou can’t have it all, all at once.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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