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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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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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" In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them. "

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" You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. "

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" In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked. "

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" I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say. "

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" I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can. "

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" I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone. "

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" 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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" I would not like to be the only woman on the court. "

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" She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. "

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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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" 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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" It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court. "

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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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" 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.' "

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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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" 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. "

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" It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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