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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year. "

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

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" There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges. "

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

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" Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college. "

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" My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. "

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

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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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" The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see. "

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

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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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