If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGBe independent and be a lady.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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