So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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 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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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