I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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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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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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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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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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 just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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