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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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" 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.' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Leave

" My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college. "

" Dissents speak to a future age. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work

Had

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

" My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Powerful

Mother

" A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process. "

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

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

" We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.' "

" 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!' "

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

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

" It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Changes

You

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day. "

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

" The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women. "

" 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.' "