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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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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 is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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