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Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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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

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

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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

"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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Donna Grant

"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."

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Donna Grant

"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."

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Donna Grant

"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."

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

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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
"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
"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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

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