Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDissents speak to a future age.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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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.
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