Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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