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

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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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.' "

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" I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world. "

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" There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges. "

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" 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. "

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" My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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

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" There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year. "

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

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" 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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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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

" I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law. "

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

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

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" Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures. "

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