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 Copy Share Image
I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The experience I don't want to see repeated occurred in 'Bush v. Gore.' The Court divided five to four. There were four… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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