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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWomen’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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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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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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