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It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's "head and master rule," that the husband was head and master of the house.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg My Own Words (2016)

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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

At the Supreme Court, those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know.

To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.

Generally change in our society is incremental. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

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