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Sandra Day O'Connor

"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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Donna Grant

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."

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Donna Grant

"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."

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Donna Grant

"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."

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Donna Grant

"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""

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Donna Grant

"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."

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Donna Grant

"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."

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Donna Grant

"Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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."

Court

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."

Court

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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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Sandra Day O'Connor
"My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"I need to retire from retirement."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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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Sandra Day O'Connor
"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."

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