Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPrisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about 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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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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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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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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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
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