We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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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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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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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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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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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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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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