Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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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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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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