If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGChoosing 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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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
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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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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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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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.
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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 think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.
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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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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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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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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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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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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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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Be independent and be a lady.
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We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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