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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

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There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

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A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

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You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

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If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.

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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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I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president.

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I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'

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After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months.

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I was a super once - an extra - in 'Die Fledermaus,' and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

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All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

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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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Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

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I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

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It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

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When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

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