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All Quotes by author - Sandra Day O'Connor

" Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges. "

" As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting. "

" 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. "

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

" For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems. "

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

" I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed. "

" I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect. "

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

" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

" I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like. "

" In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity. "

" 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. "

" I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children. "

" I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution. "

" I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. "

" The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society. "

" The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation. "

" The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. "

" 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. "

" We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. "

" 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. "

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