Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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