You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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