#men

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #authorizing #concern #core #framers

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#changes #correction #deficiencies #despite #encouraging

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#advancement #based #benefits #climate #earn

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#am #appointment #cases #decide #get

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#concern #difficult #doing #great #i

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#am #any #around #believe #certain

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#constitution #control #democratic #democratic society #each

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

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