We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThere is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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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 basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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