Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Profession : Judge

Birth : March 15, 1933

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

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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

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

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I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

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