I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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