I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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