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

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

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"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."

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"The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender."

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"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."

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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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"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."

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"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."

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