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" One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one. "

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" Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Change

Abortion

Woman

" Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community. "

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

" 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. "

" It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions. "

" Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled. "

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

" I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s. "

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

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Responsibility

Women

" People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.' "

" 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. "

" The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. "

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

" 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. "

" Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take. "

" I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Understand

Respect

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

" 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. "

" You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. "

" 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. "

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

" If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' 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. "

" 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. "