Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American jurist. She served as the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Ginsberg was the second woman to serve in the U.S Supreme Court. Ginsber spent most of her career fighting for gender equality and women’s equality. She’d come to be popularly known as “the notorious RBG” for being ruthlessly blunt with her liberal views.
Ruth Ginsburg was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Ginsburg attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in arts. She later enrolled in the Harvard Law School, where she was one of the 9 women in a class of 500 men. At the start of her career, she encountered difficulties finding employment as a lawyer, mainly due to her gender. Ginsburg spent her career as a vociferous advocate of feminism and gender rights. Throughout her career, she’d fought many landmark cases and challenged numerous patriarchal laws in the U.S. She passed at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic.
1 Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Change is inevitable in society. Meaningful changes always take their time to come to fruition. A progressive society has to learn to adapt to these changes.
2 Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment, these just zap energy and waste time. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Negative emotions like anger, jealousy and sorrow are needlessly tiring. They affect you deeply and stop you from doing your duties. Replace them with positive emotions and everything around will seem all the more better.
3 So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You’ll often face many hurdles in life. But what seems as obstacles at first glance are often opportunities that help you grow and learn. Never back down from any challenge life throws at you for there’s always a silver lining to everything.
4 Every now and then it helps to be a little deaf. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People will often criticise and judge you no matter what you do. If you really wish to move forward in life, you need to be able to turn a blind to them. If all those negative criticisms are pulling you down, close your ears to them.
5 I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You are blessed with talent and numerous abilities. If you seize every opportunity and work to the best of your abilities, no matter how tough it is, you shall always be remembered for your achievements.
6 If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Unless you dare to learn new things, you will never be able to achieve greatness. Do the things that you are most afraid of. Your limits are what you imagine them to be.
7 Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If you wish to bring about meaningful changes in the world, you’ll never be able to do it alone. Fight for what you believe in and in the process, inspire others to join you too.
8 You can disagree without being disagreeable. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We are all entitled to our own opinions. You’ll always find people with a different perspective and a different opinion than yours and you should learn to accept that.. Someone having a different opinion than yours need not necessarily be wrong.
9 I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The constitution acknowledges the right to equality tehta everyone is born with. So it isn’t a revolutionary act if you’re asking for equal treatment irrespective of your gender as it already is embedded in the constitution.
10 Women belong in all places where decisions are being made, it shouldn’t be that women are the exception. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women have always been discriminated on the basis of their sex throughout history. What the society has often failed to understand is that they are just as capable as men and deserve the same opportunities as men.
11 Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The idea that women have to be the one with the responsibility to take children is an archaic belief, one that needs to be obsolete. A child is just as much of a responsibility of the father as it is to the mother.
12 I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women have throughout history been discriminated against and held back by the patriarchal notions of gender roles. It is no favor to be done for them, as they deserve the opportunities that men enjoy.
13 Feminism [is the] notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents and not be held back by man made barriers. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Feminism is a movement that started as a noble fight against patriarchal notions that has always held back women. Every human being, irrespective of their gender, has the right to follow their dreams and feminism aims to achieve that goal.
14 My mother told me to be a lady, and for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
To be independent is the most important goal that one can achieve. You need to be able to make your own decisions and follow your own dreams without having to rely on another.
15 When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Power has the ability to corrupt even the most morally pure ones. No human can be trusted with extreme powers as we all have the ability to bend our own moral codes to our needs.
1. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2. Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment, these just zap energy and waste time. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
3. So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4. Every now and then it helps to be a little deaf. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
5. I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
6. If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
7. Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
8. You can disagree without being disagreeable. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
9. I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
10. Women belong in all places where decisions are being made, it shouldn’t be that women are the exception. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11. Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
12. I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
13. Feminism [is the] notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents and not be held back by man made barriers. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
14. My mother told me to be a lady, and for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
15. When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
