If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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Words could paint pictures.
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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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Work for the things that you care about.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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 think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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