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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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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" I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. "

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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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!' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. "

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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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

" You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I get very little sleep when the court is sitting. "

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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg