1950s Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There were eight women in my graduating class.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by…

— Jane Harman

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

— Annaleigh Ashford

When I was a first-year in grad school, there were 18 of us in the Ph.D. program, and four of us were women.

— Donna Strickland

For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in…

— Craig Ferguson

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still…

— Meryl Streep

When I started work as an economist at the Bank of England, just six of my graduate intake of 37 were women.

— Rachel Reeves

Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

My mother was from a middle-class background.

— Vivek Murthy

I was as middle class as it comes.

— Patrick Murphy

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

— Susan Dey