Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ...…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort…

— 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…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to…

— 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

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

— 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

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— 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

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

— 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

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg