A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReal change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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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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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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Words could paint pictures.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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