The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDon’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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