I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGWork for the things that you care about.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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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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Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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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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My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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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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As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.
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When 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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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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