226 Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.

After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months.

I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

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

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