I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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