Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

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

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

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”

“I dissent.”

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

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”

“Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.”

“I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.”

“Dissents speak to a future age.”

“A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

“Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.”

“You can't have it all, all at once.”

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

“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view.”