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" I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told me, 'Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you'll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Weekend

Monday

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Know

Judges

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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. "

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

" I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women. "

" 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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" Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage. "

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Stage

Lucky

" The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step. "

" I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young. "

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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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Decisions

Cannot

" 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. "

" 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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