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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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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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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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