I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWe belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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