#we

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#agree #constitution #enough #explain #majority

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

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#around #comparison #court #nations #occupies

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 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

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

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appointment #attention #did #everything #everywhere

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#because #being #better #feel #i

I think there's a difference between God and religion. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#difference #god #i #i think #religion