We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGLegislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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