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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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