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• ‟ My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

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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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• ‟ I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

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• ‟ I was a super once - an extra - in 'Die Fledermaus,' and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

  - Ruth Bader Ginsburg