Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

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Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

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I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

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What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome it was stressful.

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The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

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Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

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If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

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My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

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My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

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We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

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The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

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The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

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The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

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The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

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The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

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