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" A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. "

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" One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one. "

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" Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. "

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" You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. "

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" I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president. "

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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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" At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture. "

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" Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. "

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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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" It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. "

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" After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months. "

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" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

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" Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage. "

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" In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing. "

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" All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. "

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" I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s. "

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" The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex. "

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" I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can. "

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" Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. "

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" I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other. "

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" Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree. "

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" The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step. "

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" The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored. "

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" If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva. "

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" Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!' "

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" Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like. "

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" In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them. "

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" Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. "

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