Work for the things that you care about.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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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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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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