Ability Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

This chance will stand before you only once.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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,…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor