226 Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.