Ten Essential Quotes from the Notorious RBG

Plus my all-time favorite

This morning, I posted this picture with a couple of quotes from her, and I realized that she deserves her own full post.

Scroll down for words of encouragement from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Notorious RBG!

Let's get out there and give it everything we got!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ready for the fight. Credit to artist unknown.

Quotes from the Notorious RBG:

“Fight for the things that you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

“We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.”

“If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.”

“Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade."

“Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time."

“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 about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, ‘What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!’”

“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her wellbeing and dignity. It’s a decision she must make for herself.”

“A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage."

“I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.”

“I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.”

And my all-time favorite. I have this on a T-shirt:

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”