Work for the things that you care about.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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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 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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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