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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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 will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

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

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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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" 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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" The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification. "

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" I was a super once - an extra - in 'Die Fledermaus,' and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me. "

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

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

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

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" Dissents speak to a future age. "

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

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

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