19 Powerfully Inspiring Quotes by the Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A legend, scholar, advocate, and judge who transformed the American political system

Source: U.S. Supreme Court

In memory of Ruth Bader, Gindsburg.

1. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
2. “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exeption.”
3. “Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say, ‘my colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way,’ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.”
4. “People ask me sometimes… ‘When will there be enough women on the court?’ And my answer is: ‘When there are nine.’ People are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
5. “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
6. “Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?”
7. “People who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship.”
8. “Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to…