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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGBe the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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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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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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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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