Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‘Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was a proponent of the ERA.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I always ask my law clerks, in addition to reading all the briefs, including all the amici briefs, that if there’s a good law review article, they should bring it to me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg