A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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As 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.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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