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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More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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