I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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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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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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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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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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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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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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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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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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