Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was a proponent of the ERA.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work for the things that you care about.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

An operatic voice is like no other.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm not very good at promotion.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— 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…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My own view, and I've said this many times, is as long as I can do the work full steam, I will…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from…

— 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…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.'…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“They're not a question of additional benefits. I mean, they touch every aspect of life. Your partner is sick. Social Security. I…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think our system is being polluted by money,

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg