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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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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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 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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