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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see. "

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" People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.' "

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" The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women. "

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" We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did. "

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

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" You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen. "

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" It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court. "

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" I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women. "

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" We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country. "

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" I get very little sleep when the court is sitting. "

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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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" At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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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" 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'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women. "

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" It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures. "

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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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" Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked. "

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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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" I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012. "

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" Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. "

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