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RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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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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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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