"Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities."

-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought”
“In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.”
“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
“Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.”
“This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.”

Source : "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.
“To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.”
“Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.”
“You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich." "That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)”

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