As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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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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’m not very good at promotion.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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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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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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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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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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