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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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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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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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