If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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