It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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