You can disagree without being disagreeable.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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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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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 written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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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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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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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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