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" Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" I would not like to be the only woman on the court. "

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" I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at. "

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" She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. "

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" Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. "

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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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" My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I always ask my law clerks, in addition to reading all the briefs, including all the amici briefs, that if there's a good law review article, they should bring it to me. "

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" The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I was a proponent of the ERA. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I was a super once - an extra - in 'Die Fledermaus,' and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me. "

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" We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.' "

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" An operatic voice is like no other. "

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" I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that's on the tumblr. "

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

" At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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