All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissents speak to a future age.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg