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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.' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s. "

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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. "

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" People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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" Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was. "

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

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

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" 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.' "

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

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" I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed. "

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

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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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" 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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" There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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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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" I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law. "

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" All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset. "

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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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" Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. "

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" I was a proponent of the ERA. 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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