The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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 state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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When 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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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