I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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