“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.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsPersonsDifferentHelpingPeriodsCaringPartnersRoughLife Partner Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” MenNextParentWomenInspiringResponsibilityFamilyGenerationsShareEqualityWomens RightsNext GenerationWomen EqualityWomen In HistoryEquality Of PeopleWomen RightEquality Of ManWomen History MonthTrue Equality Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.” PeopleMenWorldChildrenEndsHomeGoalViewsDoorsLimitsMen And WomenCaringErasPlanesDividedRepresentingMiningClosed DoorsBreadwinnerFirefighting Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.” IfsMenWantedEffortPrinciplesEqualShameIndependenceSlaveryFoundersDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceAdvocacy Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.” PeopleMenStatesHomeGovernmentLawPurposeCertainPayWeaponsArmyAmendmentsNo MoneySecond AmendmentMilitiaNew Government Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.” KnowsMenMaySeemsGovernmentCareTodayYoungRightsDoorsOne ThingEqualMen And WomenConcernFundamentalsInstrumentsStatementsGrantedYoung WomenCitizenshipStatureClosed Doors Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.” MenAbleCoursesDecisionAdults Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.” PeopleMenSometimesEnoughPerceptionCourtRaisedSupremeNineSupreme CourtShockedCourt Justice Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“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.” MenWorldDoeWarEndsWomenWrittenCitizensEqualMen And WomenConstitutionWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IWomens RightsProvisionStature Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.” MenWomenLiberationWomens Rights Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.” MenSaidChoicesSidesDecisionEssentialsEqualityMakersDecision Makers Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
