People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Choosing 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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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