Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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.
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The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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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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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