Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

""So often in life things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.""

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"So often in life things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made... It shouldn't be that women are the exception."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Our task is not to erase differences, but to build unity in diversity."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

""Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.""

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Women belong in all places where decisions are made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"“As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”"

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"People ask me sometimes… When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is, When there are nine."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

""Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.""

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg