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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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Allow Liberty Majority Promotion
Be independent and be a lady.
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Independence Lady One Liner Women Empowerment
Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Ability Advance Anger Reaction
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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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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Freedom Give Up Nation Price Security
So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Present Writing
The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Amendment Constitution Function Sense
Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Freedom Law Number Profession Reveal Women
If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Equality Hope Law Women Empowerment
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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Classmate Law Life Proportion Sense Study Training
A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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