I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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