Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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When 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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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