So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPrisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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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 belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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