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

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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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"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."

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"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."

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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."

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"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."

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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."

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"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."

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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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"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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"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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