The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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