Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

American women don't need to be lectured about values by men in Washington.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

… this mad, wicked folly of women’s rights

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.

Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the ascent of women does not portend the end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. But women's progress by itself is not a panacea for America's inequities.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.