I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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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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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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