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Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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.
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Gains Imbalance Rooms
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
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Borders Country Looks
[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.
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Church Community Political
I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don’t know how many you’re going to be given.
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Appreciate Gratitude Thinking
I have always thought that while it’s wonderful to be the first to do something, you don’t want to be the last.
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First Last Something Wonderful
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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Family Nature Women
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer’s disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
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Ability Alzheimer Heartbreaking Husband
The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I’m not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.
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Constitution Done Pool
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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Doubt Jurisprudence Liberty
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
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Argument Court Gender
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness – and there is no better way to do that than by example – their children will probably follow.
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Children Example Parent
It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
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Focus Media Too Much
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Clerks Decision Justice
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.
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Great Day Jobs Thinking
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
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Learning Tasks Time
I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.
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Home Keep Law Wanted Years

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

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Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

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