A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGBe the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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