The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou can’t have it all, all at once.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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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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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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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 didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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