Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

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

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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,...