I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGOur mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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