Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judge

1933-03-15

Books by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My own words
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Selective Survey of English Language Studies on Scandinavian Law
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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
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Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
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The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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.
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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
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I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
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The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
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I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
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I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
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I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.
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I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'
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I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
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When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
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If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'
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My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.
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