We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGOur system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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 belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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