It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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 became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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 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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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