Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Most Iconic Quotes

My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.

My idea of how choice should have developed was not a privacy notion, not a doctor’s right notion, but a woman’s right to control her own destiny, to be able to make choices without a Big Brother state telling her what she can and cannot do.

Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?

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

I tell law students… if you are going to be a lawyer and just practice your profession, you have a skill—very much like a plumber. But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself… something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you.

People ask me sometimes, when—when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine.

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.