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

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"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

Belief

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Compassion

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Relationships

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Courage

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition