Feminism Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

14 Feminism quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Justice Ginsburg’s 14 quotes distill a lifetime of legal battles into bite‑size wisdom, each line echoing her steady resolve to advance gender justice. Though the set is small, it packs the weight of a Supreme Court career.

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

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

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

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A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school…

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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the…

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

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In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was…

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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.…

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Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women…

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So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women…

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

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One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government…

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

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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I think our system is being polluted by money,

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

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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.…

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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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

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