"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.“


-Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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.

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