It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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