My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
RUTH BADER GINSBURGBe independent and be a lady.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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