The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Words could paint pictures.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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