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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGFight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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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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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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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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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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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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