I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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