It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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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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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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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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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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