Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‘You don’t know how to use the English language,’ or ‘How could you make that argument?’ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of 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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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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The label ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative,’ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‘Iolanthe.’ It goes, ‘Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.’ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.
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It’s not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,’ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.
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On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.
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