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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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’m not very good at promotion.
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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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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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