Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
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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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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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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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Dissents speak to a future age.
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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