Ruth Bader Ginsburg — "The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."

"The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked abou…"

"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe ar…"

"I would like to be remembered as someone who used her talent for the reconstruction of society, a reconstructor of society to make it a little better than she found it."

"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 ever raised a question abo…"

"I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow."