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"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions."
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."

"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."

"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."

"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."

"You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen."

"No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now."

"The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this."

"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."

"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."

"We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong."

"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count."

"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."

"The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity."

"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is."

"Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes."

"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."
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