We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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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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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.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste 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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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’m not very good at promotion.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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