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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI would not like to be the only woman on the court.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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