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JUSTICE GINSBURG:: If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, You don’t know how to use the English language, or how could you make that argument? It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Place of Women on the Court (2009)

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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

At the Supreme Court, those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know.

To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.

Generally change in our society is incremental. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

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