If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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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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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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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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Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
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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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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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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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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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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.
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
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