Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.

Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they're all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth - the sex we are assigned - should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.