Dissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG
I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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