I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAs 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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMost states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWork for the things that you care about.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDon’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG