Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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• Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.
  • Writing for the court, United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996)

• In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.
  • Dissenting, Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000)

• Dissents speak to a future age. 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 and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
  • Interview with Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio (May 2, 2002)

• The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
  • Interview, Ms. (New York), April 1974

• You're saying, no, State said two kinds of marriage: the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
  • United States v. Windsor oral argument, 2013-03-27