A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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