Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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