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" The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was. "

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

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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. "

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" At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva. "

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" When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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 think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at. "

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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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" Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny. "

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" All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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