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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGEvery girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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