My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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 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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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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