I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPromoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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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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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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