If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWhen 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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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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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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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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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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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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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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