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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1993–2020; Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 1980–1993

United States · 1933–2020

Served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Previously a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, director of the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, and a law professor at Rutgers and Columbia.

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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Having advanced well beyond what the French call "a certain age," I am often asked to convey to younger people helpful advice and counsel. So I will open these remarks with the best advice I ever received. The advice, which I have several times shared with others, was given to me by my mother-in-law on my wedding day. She had a prescription for a happy, enduring marriage: "It pays," she said, "it pays sometimes to be a little deaf."

Recorded New York Law School Law Review dinner, on accepting the Froessel Award, New York Law School Law Review (digitalcommons.nyls.edu), 12 February 1999 source

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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
I have followed that advice - with, I confess, occasional lapses not only at home, but in the places I have worked, even in relating to my colleagues at the Supreme Court. It is important to be a good listener if you are to work with others effectively, but it also pays, sometimes, to be a little deaf - for example, in my current position, when a colleague, academic commentator, or journalist writes that an opinion on which I labored endless hours, worrying over every word, is "sloppy," "smug," "strange," or "profoundly misguided." I am making none of those up.

Recorded New York Law School Law Review dinner, New York Law School Law Review (digitalcommons.nyls.edu), 12 February 1999 source

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