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" I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. "

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" We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did. "

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" I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president. "

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" It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. "

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" An operatic voice is like no other. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? "

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

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" Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair. "

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

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" It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions. "

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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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" 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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" The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex. "

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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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" I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that's on the tumblr. "

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

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

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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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" At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say. "

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