You can disagree without being disagreeable.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGAdult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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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 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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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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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 would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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