So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIn every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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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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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 basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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 new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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