You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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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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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Words could paint pictures.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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