I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Words could paint pictures.
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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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An operatic voice is like no other.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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I 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 think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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