The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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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 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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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 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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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