I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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Words could paint pictures.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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