There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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 can’t have it all, all at once.
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