“If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.”

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.

You can’t have it all, all at once.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

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.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

Deep knowledge from your manager goes a long way toward motivating you. And I have a pretty good capability for that.

Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation.

Inventors don’t have time for married life.

Excellence is not an act but a habit.

As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

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