RUTH BADER GINSBURG WISDOM AND MORE

[Barbara]

"I think our system is being polluted by money."

[Barbara]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020. She was an exceptional woman, brilliant, caring, and with a good sense of humor. We need more like her.

RIP RBG. You will be missed.

[Mario]

Please do continue to quote her!
This topic is one of my favourites.

[Barbara]

Mario wrote: "Please do continue to quote her!
This topic is one of my favourites."

Thank you Mario.
I plan to go on posting quotes from RBG. 🙂🌸🌹

[Barbara]

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

[Barbara]

“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”

[Barbara]

“Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: “Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”

[Barbara]

“I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.”

[Barbara]

“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”

[Barbara]

"Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges. Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor."

[Barbara]

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

[Barbara]

“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”

[Barbara]

"Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges. Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor."

[Barbara]

“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?”

[Barbara]

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”

[Barbara]

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and she repeated them endlessly. One was to ‘be a lady,’ and that meant conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way. And the other was to be independent, which was an unusual message for mothers of that time to be giving their daughters.”

[Barbara]

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

[Barbara]

“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”

[Barbara]

“For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show. . . . As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”

Go Kamala!!! 🙂🥀🍎🍀🧡

[Barbara]

"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. (Brandeis)”

[Barbara]

“The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!”

[Barbara]

“I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.”

[Barbara]

“We may be anxious to reduce crime, but we should remember that in our system of justice, the presumption of innocence is prime, and the law cannot apply one rule to Joe who is a good man, and another to John, who is a hardened criminal.”

[Barbara]

“Another often-asked question when I speak in public: “Do you have some good advice you might share with us?”

Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. “In every good marriage,” she counseled, “it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”

I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through fifty-six years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court of the United States. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”

[Barbara]

“Spent no time fretting, and found a way to do what I thought important to get done.”

[Barbara]

“[Belva] Lockwood sought more than suffrage. She urged full political and civil rights for all women. Though she could not vote for president, she twice ran for the office herself, pointing out that nothing in the Constitution barred a woman's candidacy. (She took that bold step 124 years before Hillary Rodham Clinton first became a contender for the Democratic Party's nomination.) Explaining why she entered the race, she wrote in a letter to her future running mate, Marietta Stow: 'We shall never have equal rights until we take them, nor equal respect until we command it.”

[Barbara]

“Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.”

[Barbara]

“At Cornell University, professor of European literature Vladimir Nabokov changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.”

[Barbara]

“We should not be held back from pursuing our full talents, from contributing what we could contribute to the society, because we fit into a certain mould ― because we belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.”

[Barbara]

“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices.”

[Barbara]

“[I want to be remembered as] someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has. To do something, as my colleague David Souter would say, outside myself. ‘Cause I’ve gotten much more satisfaction for the things that I’ve done for which I was not paid.”

[Barbara]

“Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show. . . . As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it."


Sandra Day O'Connor

[Barbara]

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."

[Barbara]

“Less than 3 percent of positions in the federal government at and above GS-16 rank are held by women.”

[Barbara]

“We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’”

[Barbara]

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

[Barbara]

"Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: “Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”

[Barbara]

“I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.”

[Barbara]

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

[Barbara]

“We should not be held back from pursuing our full talents, from contributing what we could contribute to the society, because we fit into a certain mold ― because we belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.”

[Barbara]

“Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‘Free to be You and Me.’”

[Barbara]

“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.”

[Barbara]

"No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs."

[Barbara]

“We care about this institution more than our individual egos and we are all devoted to keeping the Supreme Court in the place that it is, as a co-equal third branch of government and I think a model for the world in the collegiality and independence of judges.”

[Barbara]

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

[Barbara]

"If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?....'

[Barbara]

"It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive."

[Barbara]

"We gave the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.' "

[Barbara]

"Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time."

[Barbara]

"You can disagree without being disagreeable."