You can’t have it all, all at once.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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