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" Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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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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" I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam. "

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" Dissents speak to a future age. "

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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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" 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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" In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection. "

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" Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart. "

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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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" Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take. "

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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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" 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 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. "

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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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" I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. "

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" I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. "

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

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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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" The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. "

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" So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. "

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

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" I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day. "

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" 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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" 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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" My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment. "

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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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" When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president. "

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