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1191 Lawyer Quotes

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Day Hope Law One Day
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I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president.

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Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

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You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.

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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart.

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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
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There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

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It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.

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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Classmates Each Gave Law
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Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

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At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

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Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Captures Explanation Feminism Free
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It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

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In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

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I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
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I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Court Each Genuinely I Think
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

Am Any Basis Because
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In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

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My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

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My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

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Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

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I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

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Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.
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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

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I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

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The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

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The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

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The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

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Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

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Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

Against Anybody Been Discriminated
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

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I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

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We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

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We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

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