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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. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Think
People
Influence
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" A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. "
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" I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief. "
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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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" The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections. "
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" Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. "
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" In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection. "
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" I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program. "
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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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" I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. "
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Others
Listening
" I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam. "
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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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Feel
Brain
" 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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School
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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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" I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world. "
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Own
" Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. "
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Door
Goal
Limits
" 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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Service
Opportunity
Time
" Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. "
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Anger
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" In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" You can disagree without being disagreeable. "
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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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Decide
" So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. "
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Tomorrow
Today
" 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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" 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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