If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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