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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 15
Died: 2020
Died: September 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Judge
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Brooklyn
New York
RBG
Notorious RBG
Joan Ruth Bader
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.
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It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.
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Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.
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The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.
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Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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.
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