Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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