I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
Whole Women’s Health’ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
I think some of my colleagues’ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
