As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Words could paint pictures.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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