- 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.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I 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.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: When 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.
- Bill Clinton: She did something I'm not sure I could have done: she made real friendship with
- [Antonin]
- Bill Clinton: Scalia.
- Antonin Scalia: Why don't you call us the Odd Couple?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: He is a very funny fellow.
- Antonin Scalia: She'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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