One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.
Ruth Bader GinsburgFeminism โฆ I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girlโdoctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if youโre a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, thatโs OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriersโmanmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg