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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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" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order. "

" There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great. "

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

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. "

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

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

" It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. "

" I always ask my law clerks, in addition to reading all the briefs, including all the amici briefs, that if there's a good law review article, they should bring it to me. "

" I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program. "

" When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. "

" Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!' "

" 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. "