I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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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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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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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