You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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 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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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