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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" 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. "

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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' 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. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in 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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" It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled. "

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" When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. "

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" I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.' "

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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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" When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras. "

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

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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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" Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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

" 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

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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" Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' "

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" We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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" We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains. "

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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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