My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Words could paint pictures.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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