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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou can disagree without being disagreeable.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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