88 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

American Judge

Born: Mar 15, 1933

Law Me People Think Women You

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

You Fight Care Will Others Way About Join Lead Things

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Anger Will Ability Advance Annoyance Reacting Persuade

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

Women Gender Pedestal Cage Line Helps Keep

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

Me Mother Independence Own Independent Person Lady Meant Your Her

You can disagree without being disagreeable. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You Disagree Disagreeable Without Being

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Privacy Abortion Control Must Emphasis Reproductive Right

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Learning Strong Listening Others Very Believer

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You People Language Will Argument Aggressive Say Touch More Could Know Welcomed Make Accept Gentle How Than Influence Want Them Much Use Your English English Language Suggestions

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Time Thought Too Frankly About Had Particularly Concern Roe Want Decided Many Population Population Growth Growth

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 have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Today Hope Writing Tomorrow

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Constitution Would Look Were Drafting

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judge Would Entire Case Only Particular Forecasts Judicial Hints Offer Disdain Decide Process Show Display Sworn Disregard

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

You Change People Change Things Going Hold Who Things

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Say Because Am Discrimination Any Upset Experienced Sensitive Basis

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Words Word Enormous Changed Way Right Word Could Write He Idea Pictures Make Him Read Learned Difference Order Literature Conveying Choosing Paint European Professor Illustrated Right Image University

I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Country President Our Would Would-Be Trump Donald Donald Trump Place Imagine

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Woman Equality Controlling State Would Denying Autonomy Mean Full Her

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.' Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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