My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReal change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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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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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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