At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSpeak you mind even if your voice shakes.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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