During the U.S. Supreme Court's winter break, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been on a whirlwind tour of law schools, universities and other venues. The #MeToo movement popped up in those conversations with the justice, who described herself in one recent chat as a “flaming feminist litigator” in her early years battling sex discrimination through the courts.

The justice's interviewers prodded Ginsburg for her thoughts on the future of the #MeToo movement and how much progress has been made in eradicating gender discrimination since her own achievements on that front.

Here are highlights of Ginsburg's remarks in recent weeks.

“I do hope it will not be just Hollywood stars and other prominent people, that it will go down to the maids in the hotel. I'm hopeful this movement will succeed in stopping something that should've been stopped a long time ago.”

But has there been “progress” in the years since she was a litigator, Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center, asked Ginsburg.

“The progress has been enormous and that's what makes me hopeful for the future,” Ginsburg said. “The signs are all around us. I think in the elections for 2018, there will be more women running for office on every level. I was impressed and heartened by the women's march in D.C., which has now been repeated in many places all over the country.”

“It's amazing to me that for the first time, women are really listened to because sexual harassment had often been dismissed as 'well, she made it up,' or 'she's too thin-skinned.' So I think it's a very healthy development,” Ginsburg told CNN's Poppy Harlow.

“Is Washington listening and acting fast enough?” Harlow asked.

“Is this Congress acting fast enough? This Congress is not acting,” Ginsburg responded. “But we will get past this time of inaction. It's been very hard even to keep the government going lately.”

“I think it's about time,” Ginsburg told NPR's Nina Totenberg. “For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it. But now the law is on the side of women or men who encounter harassment, and that's a good thing.”

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