A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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