If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‘A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read Quote
