“ Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impedime… Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing. 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 abou… Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ 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 judi… Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ 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 ar… Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“ My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s,… Ruth Bader Ginsburg
