The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWords could paint pictures.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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