56 result(s) for Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes.
"People ask me sometimes, when - when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the Court? And my answer is when there are nine."
"Dissent speaks to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow."
"I would like to see a day when women, if they so choose, can have it all."
"Just as we reject discrimination based on race, sex, religion, and ethnic origin, we reject discrimination against gay people."
"The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control."
"A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom."
"If you're a boy and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that's okay."
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"Every now and then it helps to be a little deaf... that advice has stood me in good stead. Not simply in dealing with my marriage, but in dealing with my colleagues."
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception."
"Dissents speak to a future age."
"I'm dejected on the bench, and then I think about how it would have been if I had decided to become a lawyer for as long as I live, doing things I didn't think were important, working on big corporate matters. That was my alternative life."
"Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
"I tell law students... if you are going to be a lawyer and just practice your profession, you have a skill—very much like a plumber. But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself, something to repair tears in your community, something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you."
"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."
"I dissent."
"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."
"People ask me sometimes, 'When will there be enough women on the court?' And my answer is when there are nine."
"A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage."
"I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others."
"If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me."
"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow."
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"I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women."
"I would like to be remembered as someone who helped repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has."
"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."
"When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous."
"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view."
"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."
"Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy."
"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."
"When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out."
"You can't have it all, all at once."
"I would like my grandchildren to look back on me as someone who fought for justice and equality."
"To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one's community."
"If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself."
"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."
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"I tell law students... if you are going to be a lawyer and just practice your profession, you have a skill—very much like a plumber. But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself... something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you."
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
"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."
"I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks."
"Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."
"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."
"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time, their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow."
"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune."
"Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade."
"When contemplated in its entirety, the history of the human rights movement shows that many achievements were attained because they were first opposed."
"Feminism [is the] notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents and not be held back by manmade barriers."
"People ask me sometimes, when — when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the Court? And my answer is when there are nine."
"Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time."
"The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage."
"Women on the bench certainly know that we speak for all women. As far as I know, there is no similar claim made by men on the bench — that they speak for all men and that's why a man should be appointed."
"A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage."
"You can disagree without being disagreeable."
"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."
"I'm dejected, but only momentarily, when I can't get the fifth vote for something I think is very important. But then you go on to the next challenge and you give it your all."
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