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Overall, the Court's Roe position is weakened, I believe, by the opinion's concentration on a medically approved autonomy idea, to the exclusion of a constitutionally based sex-equality perspective. I understand the view that for political reasons the reproductive autonomy controversy should be isolated from the general debate on equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for women and men.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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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