Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
Frases de Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.
Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'
We've come a long way from the days when there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.
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,…
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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.
Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.
I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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.
The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.
I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.
At my advanced age – I'm now an octogenarian – I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
I can't imagine what this place would be. I can't imagine what the country would be. With Donald Trump as our president.
I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on.
You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.