The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWork for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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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 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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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
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I think our system is being polluted by money.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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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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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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