If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGReading 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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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Work for the things that you care about.
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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 I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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You can’t have it all, all at once.
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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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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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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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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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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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