#mo

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#economy #modern #redistribution #time #wealth

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

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#bleak #faith #future #hope #human

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

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#children #full-time #good #i #issue

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

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

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

#concern #convince #could #enough #i

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#children #communities #continue #education #involved

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#am #amount #cases #chambers #enormous