The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWho will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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