We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAdult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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Words could paint pictures.
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