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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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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 we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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