So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDissents speak to a future age.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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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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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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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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