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"The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now."

"My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about."

"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination."

"What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it."

"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court."

"For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977."

"When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything."

"I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women."

"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."
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