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, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
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. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
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. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges. Sandra Day O'Connor Read Quote
