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"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?"

"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."

"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."

"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."
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"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."


"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."


"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."


"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."


"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."


"If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is."


"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."


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."


"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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