I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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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 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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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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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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