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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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#am #amount #cases #chambers #enormous

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alternative #been #begins #considered #country

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

#eight #fat #got #i #me

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#any #clause #community #establishment #government

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #fact #sits

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#delighted #female #just #kind #male

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#thought #written

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#child #get #incentive #kids #left

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#depends #exert #gender #i #power