If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIn the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be independent and be a lady.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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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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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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 no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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