Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was a super once – an extra – in ‘Die Fledermaus,’ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg