Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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 women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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