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The entering class I joined i...

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.

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People who have been hardwork...

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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Arizona presents no specific ...

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 126 quotes

It is not like I have gone cr...

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 said on the equality side o...

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.

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When I graduated from law sch...

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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I was a proponent of the ERA....

I was a proponent of the ERA. 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 was the first tenured woman...

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.

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There's nothing in the Consti...

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

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I think members of the legisl...

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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In 2015, an opera opened abou...

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.

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I was a super once - an extra...

I was a super once - an extra - in 'Die Fledermaus,' and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

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A judge sworn to decide impar...

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.

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I don't think that a Justice ...

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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In the '50s, too many women, ...

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.

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My mother was a powerful infl...

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.

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After the pancreatic cancer, ...

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

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'Whole Women's Health' made i...

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

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I became a lawyer for selfish...

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

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We should learn ... to do our...

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 126 quotes

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