Augustina Bader Quotes

#1. Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#2. She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#4. Bow to your sensei. Bow to your sensei! #Quote by Diedrich Bader

#5. The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#6. Great success doesn't come without a little bit of risk. #Quote by Colleen Ferrary Bader

#7. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#8. Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#9. When I met my first 'millionaire' at 15, I knew that I had to pay attention. I mustered the courage & asked for the secret to success. "Golf," he said. That was it. One word clearly lost on me until years later. #Quote by Colleen Ferrary Bader

#10. If only the court had acted more slowly,' RBG said, and cut down one state law at a time the way she had gotten them to do with the jury and benefit cases. The justices could have been persuaded to build an architecture of women's equality that could house reproductive freedom. She said the very boldness of Roe, striking down all abortion bans until viability, had 'halted a political process that was moving in a reform direction and thereby, I believe, prolonged divisiveness and deferred stable settlement of the issue. (85). #Quote by Irin Carmon

#11. We have three big shows on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth. #Quote by David A. Bader

#12. Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing - to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#13. Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#14. There is a Constitutional right to prostitution. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#15. When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#16. If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#17. Sex, after all, is about being separate and joined at the same time. The fact that men tend to emphasize the former and women the latter is not an irreducible fact of gender, but the result of asymmetries in childrearing and socialization. But more than that, such tensions reflect the fact that in our society as a whole we don't know how to be involved with one another without feeling burdened or selfishly indulgent without feeling guilty. If we can solve this problem on a societal level, it will go a long way to solving it in the bedroom. #Quote by Michael J. Bader

#18. The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#19. Fight for the things you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you. - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court Justice, New York Times #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsberg

#20. When I was 15, a well off man told me the secret to success was golf. It took me until I became 30 to realize it was the true. Today, you couldn't convince me otherwise. #Quote by Colleen Ferrary Bader

#21. don't be a backseat driver. Instead, quietly recite mantras of protection. For example: "You're going to get us all killed. #Quote by David M. Bader

#22. Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#23. We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. #Quote by Douglas Bader

#24. 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.' Free to be, if you were a girl - doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you're a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that's OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers - manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#25. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have it all - they just don't have the juice to figure it out. #Quote by Colleen Ferrary Bader

#26. You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#27. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. #Quote by Donna Leon

#28. Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#29. Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character. #Quote by Diedrich Bader

#30. We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#31. My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#32. I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial ... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#33. 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. #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#34. According to Ruth, Nabokov changed the way she read and wrote: "He used words to paint pictures. Even today, when I read, I notice with pleasure when an author has chosen a particular word, a particular place, for the picture it will convey to the reader." Ruth remembers #Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg