Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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