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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Stage

Lucky

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" America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. "

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

" If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers. "

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

" If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Changes

You

" The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification. "

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

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Been

Who

" On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing. "

" An operatic voice is like no other. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Other

Voice

" 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. "

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

" If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. "

" I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told me, 'Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you'll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Weekend

Monday

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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