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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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