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" Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Thought

Feel

Brain

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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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" 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. "

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

" When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. "

" 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. "

" My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. "

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Responsibility

Women

" 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. "

" I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day. "

" We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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Proponent

" On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing. "

" 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. "

" All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset. "

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

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