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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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“At the Supreme Court, those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gerstein, Josh; Ward, Alexander (May 2, 2022). "Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows". Politico. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
“Think back to 1787. Who were 'we the people'? … They certainly weren't women … they surely weren't people held in human bondage. The genius of our Constitution is that over now more than 200 sometimes turbulent years that 'we' has expanded and expanded.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the fight for equality. Source: Appearance at Georgetown University, 2015. As quoted in: Li Cohen (September 19, 2022): Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic quotes on law, love and the fight for equality. In: CBS News. Archi…
“When I’m sometimes asked ‘When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?’ and my answer is: ‘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 (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About women on the United States Supreme Court. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on Septembe…
“They have never been a 13-year-old girl.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About men on the court after her male colleagues appeared indifferent about a girl’s strip-search by school administrators in the case Safford Unified School District v. Redding. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2…
“We are a nation made strong by people like you.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To new citizens at a naturalization ceremony. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September …
“She said, Dear, in every good marriage it helps sometimes to be a little deaf. And I followed that advice in dealing not only with my dear spouse but in dealing even with my colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On love. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on advice from her mother-in-law. As quoted in: Li Cohen (September 19, 2022): Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic quotes on law, love and the fight for equality. In: CBS News. Archived from the or…
“It helps sometimes to be a little deaf (in marriage and in) every workplace, including the good job I have now.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About marriage and work. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About being a woman. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About gender equality. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“This is something central to a woman’s life, to her dignity. It’s a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she’s being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On support for abortion rights. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“We are at last beginning to relegate to the history books the idea of the token woman.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About her legacy. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About her legacy. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“The seven to two judgment in Roe v. Wade declared “violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment” a Texas criminal abortion statute that intolerably shackled a woman’s autonomy; the Texas law “except[ed] from criminality only a life-saving procedure on behalf of the [pregnant woman].” Suppose the Court had stopped there, rightly declaring unconstitutional the most extreme brand of law in the nation, and had not gone on, as the Court did in Roe, to fashion a regime blanketing the subject, a set of rules that displaced virtually every state law then in force. Would there have been the twenty-year controversy we have witnessed, reflected most recently in the Supreme Court’s splintered decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey? A less encompassing Roe, one that merely struck down the extreme Texas law and went no further on that day, I believe and will summarize why, might have served to reduce rather than to fuel controversy.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture given in 2003 year at New York University School of Law in which Ginsburg critiqued the United States SUpreme Court for the structure of its decision in Roe v. Wade. As quoted in: Olivia Waxman (August 2, 2018):…
“So all three strands were involved in Captain Struck’s case. The main emphasis was on her equality as a woman vis-à-vis a man who was equally responsible for the conception, and on her personal choice, which the Government said she could not have unless she gave up her career in the service. In that case, all three strands were involved: her equality right, her right to decide for herself whether she was going to bear the child, and her religious belief. So it was never an either/or matter, one rather than the other. It was always recognition that one thing that conspicuously distinguishes women from men is that only women become pregnant; and if you subject a woman to disadvantageous treatment on the basis of her pregnant status, which was what was happening to Captain Struck, you would be denying her equal treatment under the law…”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the case Struck v. Secretary of Defense. 1993 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. As quoted in: Olivia Waxman (August 2, 2018): Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wishes This Case Had Legalized Abortion Instead of Roe…
“Let me try to state in a nutshell how I view the work of judging. My approach, I believe, is neither liberal nor conservative. Rather, it is rooted in the place of the judiciary, of judges, in our democratic society. The Constitution’s preamble speaks first of we, the people, and then of their elected representatives. The judiciary is third in line and it is placed apart from the political fray so that its members can judge fairly, impartially, in accordance with the law, and without fear about the animosity of any pressure group. In Alexander Hamilton’s words, “The mission of judges is to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws.” I would add that the judge should carry out that function without fanfare, but with due care. She should decide the case before her without reaching out to cover cases not yet seen. She should be ever mindful as judge. And then Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo said, “Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1993 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. As quoted in Rev.com (undated): Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Confirmation Hearing Transcript 1993. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“Defenders of sex-based government action must demonstrate an exceedingly persuasive justification for that action to make that demonstration. The defender of a gender line must show at least that the talents classification served important governmental objective and that any discriminatory mean employed is substantively related to the achievement of those objectives. The heightened review standard applicable to sex-based classification does not make a proscribed classification but it does mark as presumptively invalid incompatible with equal protection a law or official policy that denies to women simply because they are women equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in, and contribute to society based upon what they can do. Under this exacting standard reliance on overbroad generalization typically male or typically female tendency estimates about the way most women or most men are will not suffice to deny opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description. As this Court said in Mississippi University for women against Hogan some 14 years ago state actors may not close entrance gates based on fixed notions concerning their roles and abilities of males and females.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opinion Announcement (June 26, 1996) in United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996)
“Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity. Sex classifications may be used to compensate women "for particular economic disabilities [they have] suffered," Califano v. Webster, 430 U. S. 313, 320 (1977) (per curiam), to "promot[e] equal employment opportunity," see California Fed. Sav. & Loan Assn. v. Guerra, 479 U. S. 272, 289 (1987), to advance full development of the talent and capacities of our Nation's people. But such classifications may not be used, as they once were, see Goesaert, 335 U. S., at 467, to create or perpetuate the legal, social, and economic inferiority of women.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writing for the court, United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), at 533-534.
“To summarize the Court's current directions for cases of official classification based on gender: Focusing on the differential treatment or denial of opportunity for which relief is sought, the reviewing court must determine whether the proffered justification is "exceedingly persuasive." The burden of justification is demanding and it rests entirely on the State. [...] The justification must be genuine, not hypothesized or invented post hoc in response to litigation. And it must not rely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females. [...] As earlier stated, see supra, at 541-542, generalizations about "the way women are," estimates of what is appropriate for most women, no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writing for the court, United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), at 533 and 550.
“JUSTICE GINSBURG: I think back to the days when — I don’t know who it was — when I think Truman suggested the possibility of a woman as a justice. Someone said we have these conferences and men are talking to men and sometimes we loosen our ties, sometimes even take off our shoes. The notion was that they would be inhibited from doing that if women were around. I don’t know how many times I’ve kicked off my shoes. Including the time some reporter said something like, it took me a long time to get up from the bench. They worried, was I frail? To be truthful I had kicked off my shoes, and I couldn’t find my right shoe; it traveled way underneath.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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, would take. I think the answer to that problem is in Congress' lap. People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say "we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg", The Takeaway (16 September 2013)