226 Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

The age of consent for sex should be 12 years old.

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. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.