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" It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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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" One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one. "

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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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" The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like. "

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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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" If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. "

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

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

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

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