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" Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world. "

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" The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community. "

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

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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. "

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" Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. "

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

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

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" I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers. "

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" You can disagree without being disagreeable. "

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" I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.' "

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

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

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

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