You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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 just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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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