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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
Life
"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
Chance
"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."
Thought
"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
Racism
"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
Cultural
"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."
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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
Life
"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
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