I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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