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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEach part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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