If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGDon’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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