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" We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains. "

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" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Grow

Experience

Grow Up

" I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical. "

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

" I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that's on the tumblr. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Think

Grandchildren

" My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone. "

" In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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