Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAs women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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