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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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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 think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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