“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the ...” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great.”

“Most women are one man away from welfare.”

“One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.”

“Women hold up half the sky.”