There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen 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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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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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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