Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes - page 3

JUSTICE GINSBURG: I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world. If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
Q: You are said to have very warm relationships with your colleagues. And so I was surprised to read a comment you made in an interview in May with Joan Biskupic of USA Today. You said that when you were a young lawyer, your voice was often ignored, and then a male colleague would repeat a point you'd made, and other people would be alert to it. And then you said this still happens now at conference. View quote
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Q: What about the case this term involving the strip search, in school, of 13-year-old Savana Red-ding? Justice Souter's majority opinion, finding that the strip search was unconstitutional, is very different from what I expected after oral argument, when some of the men on the court didn't seem to see the seriousness here. Is that an example of a case when having a woman as part of the conversation was important? View quote
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People ask me sometimes... 'When will there be enough women on the 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. View quote
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Eight is not a good number for a collegial body that sometimes disagrees. View quote
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I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea... I am not at all in favor of that solution. View quote
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At the Supreme Court, those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know. View quote
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They have never been a 13-year-old girl. View quote
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It helps sometimes to be a little deaf (in marriage and in) every workplace, including the good job I have now. View quote
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