If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEvery girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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Words could paint pictures.
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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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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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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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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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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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