Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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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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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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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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.
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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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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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