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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

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

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In sum, the Court’s conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court’s own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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