Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
RUTH BADER GINSBURGYou’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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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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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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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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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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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Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.
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I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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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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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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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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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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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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