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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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