When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share
