I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDon’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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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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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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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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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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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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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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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 emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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