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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."
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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
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"A will finds a way."
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"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
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"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."
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"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead."
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"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."
Time
"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."
Woman
"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."
American
"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
Court
"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."
Life
"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."
Thought
"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."
Education
"My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move."
Concern
"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
Experience
"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."
History
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