We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEvery constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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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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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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