I think our system is being polluted by money.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGLegislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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