It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEvery 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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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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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