"Anything looks like a favor to women would be used against them."——任何看起来像是对女性的特别优待最终都会反过来制约她们。
Laws which disable women from full participation in the political, business and economic arenas are often characterized as "protective" and beneficial... The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.
——Ginsberg's Brief in Reed v. Reed, 1971
“那些阻止女性充分参与政治、商业和经济领域的法律常常被描绘为'保护女性'或是为女性着想……女性看似是被捧在高台上细心呵护,但细看却是被关在了伪装成高台的牢笼之中。”
——作为原告律师的金斯伯格(现任美国最高法院大法官)1971年在里德诉里德案的辩护状中写道
Heading the list of arbitrary barriers that have plagued women seeking equal opportunity is disadvantaged treatment based on their unique childbearing function. Until very recent years, jurists have regarded any discrimination in the treatment of pregnant women and mothers as "benignly in their favor." But in fact, restrictive rules ... operate as "built-in headwinds" that drastically curtail women's opportunities. Decisions of this Court that sp