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" Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures. "

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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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Think

Colleagues

Justice

" A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. "

" 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. "

" Dissents speak to a future age. "

" 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. "

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

" I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women. "

" 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. "

" We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I was a proponent of the ERA. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Era

Proponent

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

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

" 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'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. "

" If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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 am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Decisions

Cannot

" Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? "

" 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. "

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

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