Daily Inspiration Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ginsburg’s bluntest move here is to strip away the moral theater and talk about power. “There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore” isn’t a slogan; it’s an observation about how rights operate in practice when money can buy mobility, discretion, and private care. The sentence is doing two jobs at once: predicting reality and indicting a legal regime that pretends otherwise.

The subtext is a critique of American federalism as a sorting machine. If abortion access is left to states, the market fills the gaps for the affluent while geography and poverty harden into destiny for everyone else. Her phrase “straightened out” carries a jurist’s impatience with a system that claims neutrality while producing predictable, unequal outcomes. It’s not abstract fairness; it’s the lived asymmetry of who gets options and who gets punished for lacking them.

Context matters: Ginsburg often framed abortion rights less as a culture-war totem and more as an equality question embedded in social policy. She’s pointing to the pre-Roe landscape where reform had already begun in certain states, implying a one-way ratchet in the most resourced places. The sting is in “and it can never be otherwise”: unless the law is national, uniform, and enforceable, restrictions function as a tax on poverty. In typical Ginsburg fashion, the argument is quiet, surgical, and devastating: a “choice” that only some people can exercise is not a right, it’s a privilege with better branding.