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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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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" 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'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. "

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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.' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" You can disagree without being disagreeable. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.' "

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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