Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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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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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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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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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
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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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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 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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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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