There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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I 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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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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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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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.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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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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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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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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