A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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Words could paint pictures.
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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 don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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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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