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1933–2020 United States
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
At the Supreme Court, those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know.
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.
Generally change in our society is incremental. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.
Nine, nine... There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?
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.
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.
And it must not rely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females.
Abortion prohibition by the State controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men.
It helps sometimes to be a little deaf (in marriage and in) every workplace, including the good job I have now.
I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
Dissents speak to a future age.
Eight is not a good number for a collegial body that sometimes disagrees.
We are a nation made strong by people like you.
They have never been a 13-year-old girl.
The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Q: What do you think about Judge Sotomayor’s frank remarks that she is a product of affirmative action?
The Place of Women on the Court (2009)
We are at last beginning to relegate to the history books the idea of the token woman.
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