There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWork for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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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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