It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg