Sandra Day O Connor Quotes

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
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.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
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.
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.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
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.
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
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.
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.
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
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.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
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