I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Words could paint pictures.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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