Ruth Bader Ginsburg[Quoting Sarah Grimké, 1837]I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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Ruth Bader GinsburgI was terribly, terribly nervous. But then, I looked up at the Justices, and I thought, 'I have a captive audience.' I knew that I was speaking to men who didn't think there was any such thing as gender-based discrimination, and my job was to tell them: it really exists.
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Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen I am at an opera, I get totally carried away. I don't think about the case that's coming up next week, or the brief that I'm in the middle.of. I'm overwhelmed by the beauty of the music, the drama, and the sound of human voice. It's like an electric current going through me. Justice and mercy, they're all in opera. Very grand emotions.
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Bill ClintonShe did something I'm not sure I could have done: she made real friendship with
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Bill ClintonScalia.
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Antonin ScaliaWhy don't you call us the Odd Couple?
Ruth Bader GinsburgHe is a very funny fellow.
Antonin ScaliaShe's a very nice person, she likes opera - what's not to like?... Except her views of the law, of course.
[Both Ginsburg and Scalia, as well as the crowd, laugh]
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Donald Trump[about Ruth Bader Ginsburg]An absolute disgrace to the Supreme Court.