Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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Words could paint pictures.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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.
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