It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Words could paint pictures.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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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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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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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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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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