I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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 written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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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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I’m not very good at promotion.
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