Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.
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When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
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There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.
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Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
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The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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