It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGChoosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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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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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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 prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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