Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: “Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.
I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and she repeated them endlessly. One was to ‘be a lady,’ and that meant conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way. And the other was to be independent, which was an unusual message for mothers of that time to be giving their daughters.
So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
According to Ruth, Nabokov changed the way she read and wrote: “He used words to paint pictures. Even today, when I read, I notice with pleasure when an author has chosen a particular word, a particular place, for the picture it will convey to the reader.” Ruth remembers.
I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
Cushman, who assigned her to research McCarthy’s assault on civil liberties, “wanted me to understand two things,” Ruth recalls. “One is that we were betraying our most fundamental values, and, two, that legal skills could help make things better, could help to challenge what was going on.