Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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Dissents speak to a future age.
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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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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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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