It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI would not like to be the only woman on the court.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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 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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Be independent and be a lady.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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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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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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