I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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 you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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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 a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
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