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" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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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" Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!' "

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

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

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" If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva. "

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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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" 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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" I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. "

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" The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community. "

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" Dissents speak to a future age. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. "

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

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" The experience I don't want to see repeated occurred in 'Bush v. Gore.' The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together. "

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