I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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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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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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