The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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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.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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