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"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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"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."
"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."
"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone."
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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"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."
"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."
"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."
"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."
"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."
"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
"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."
"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."
"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."
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