A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou can’t have it all, all at once.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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