I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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