Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIt 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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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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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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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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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 would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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