Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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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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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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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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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.
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