I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIn every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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