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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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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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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
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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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Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
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I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
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The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on 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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Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
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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.
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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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