Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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 do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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