In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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