Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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