Top 12 Powerful Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which makes her the second female justice in the country’s history.

Encouraged by her mother to embrace education, Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School as one of nine females in a class size of approximately 500 students. She transferred to Columbia Law School after her husband took a job in New York City, becoming the first woman to be on two major law reviews— the Columbia Law Review and the Harvard Law Review.

Ginsburg’s start to her legal career was not ideal; being a mother to a young child, a wife, and Jewish at a dangerous time in our history, she struggled to find a job. Eventually, Ginsburg became an associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure and spent time in Sweden where she began to develop more insight on gender equality.

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Back in the States, Ginsburg became a professor at Rutgers Law School and was one of less than twenty female professors in the country. Ginsburg has devoted most of her career to fighting for women’s rights as a constitutional principle.

In 1972, she co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and between 1973 and 1976, she argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court and won five of them. In 2009, Forbes named her among the 100 Most Powerful Women. Here are our Top 12 Powerful Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes for you.

Top 12 Powerful Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

The side that wants to take the choice away from women and give it to the state, they’re fighting a losing battle. Time is on the side of change.

People ask me sometimes, “When will there be enough women on the court?” And my answer is: “WHEN THERE ARE NINE.”

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

WHEN CONTEMPLATED IN ITS EXTREME, ALMOST ANY POWER LOOKS DANGEROUS.

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

We should not be held back from pursuing our full talents, from contributing what we could contribute to the society, because we fit into a certain mold—because we belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

YOU CAN DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE.

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me.

Every now and then it HELPS to be a LITTLE DEAF… That advice has stood me in good stead. Not simply in dealing with my marriage, but in dealing with my colleagues.

I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

I DON'T SAY WOMEN'S RIGHTS- I SAY THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE OF THE EQUAL CITIZENSHIP STATURE OF MEN AND WOMEN.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

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.

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

FIGHT FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU CARE ABOUT. BUT DO IT IN A WAY THAT WILL LEAD OTHERS TO JOIN YOU.

Top 12 Powerful Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

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