My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Ruth Bader GinsburgJudge · American · b. 1933

More from Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg