The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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