Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of ...

The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is ...

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the...

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, a...

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the ne...

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage ...

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up th...

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was d...

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able t...

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated dec...

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious f...

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could h...

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be t...

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice ...

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Dissents speak to a future age.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that ...

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever wr...