It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAs women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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 don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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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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