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Sandra Day O'Connor
March 26, 1930 -
Nationality: American
Category: Judge
Subcategory: American Judge

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.

   

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

I need to retire from retirement.

   

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

   

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

   

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