A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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.
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