In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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Work for the things that you care about.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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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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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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