I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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 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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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