My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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.
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.
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
I think Mozart’s operas ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and ‘Don Giovanni’ are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.