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“I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.”

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When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As…

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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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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…

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My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a…

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The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end…

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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this…

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You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one…

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A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the…

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This chance will stand before you only once.

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I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature,…

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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

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And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself…

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