I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGLegislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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