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.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Racism is real in this country.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Homophobia is real in this country.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

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.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

What we know is that when girls don’t go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they’re more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.