At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou can’t have it all, all at once.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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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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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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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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