I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReading 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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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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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