A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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