Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

“Once asked how we could be friends, given our disagreemt on lots of things, Justice Scalia answered: "I attack ideas. i don´t attack people. Some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can´t seperate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don´t want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words

“WHAT DID SHE mean by be a lady? Well, she didn’t mean somebody who serves tea at four in the afternoon. What she meant was, a lady doesn’t waste time on unproductive emotions. A lady doesn’t snap back in anger. She isn’t envious. She is a lady—that is, if an unkind word is spoken, it’s as though she didn’t hear it.”
― Helena Hunt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words

“PEOPLE WHO HAVE known discrimination are bound to be sympathetic to discrimination encountered by others, because they understand how it feels to be exposed to disadvantageous treatment for reasons that have nothing to do with one’s ability, or the contributions one can make to society.”
― Helena Hunt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words