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Q: You are said to have very warm relationships with your colleagues. And so I was surprised to read a comment you made in an interview in May with Joan Biskupic of USA Today. You said that when you were a young lawyer, your voice was often ignored, and then a male colleague would repeat a point you'd made, and other people would be alert to it. And then you said this still happens now at conference.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Q: What about the case this term involving the strip search, in school, of 13-year-old Savana Red-ding? Justice Souter's majority opinion, finding that the strip search was unconstitutional, is very different from what I expected after oral argument, when some of the men on the court didn't seem to see the seriousness here. Is that an example of a case when having a woman as part of the conversation was important?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People ask me sometimes... 'When will there be enough women on the court?' And my answer is, 'When there are nine.' People are shocked, but there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Eight is not a good number for a collegial body that sometimes disagrees.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges. I think that was a bad idea... I am not at all in favor of that solution.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
At the Supreme Court, those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
They have never been a 13-year-old girl.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It helps sometimes to be a little deaf (in marriage and in) every workplace, including the good job I have now.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Occupation:
American Judge
Born:
March 15, 1933
Died:
September 18, 2020
Quotes count:
59
Wikipedia:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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