The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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