The experience I don't want to see repeated occurred in 'Bush v. Gore.' The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Dissents speak to a future age.
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.
Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.
America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president.
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
