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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDon’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I would not like to be the only woman on 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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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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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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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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