Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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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 emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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