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Well traveled, wise, and what the French call sympathique, Mary seemed to me a fit partner for Wendy
Sympathique - adjective. 1(of a person) agreeably in tune with another's personality or mood.
“Did you always want to be a judge” or, more exorbitantly, “a Supreme Court Justice?” Schoolchildren visiting me at the Court, as they do at least weekly, ask that question more than any other.
Exorbitantly 😂🤣
Today about half the nation’s law students and more than one-third of our federal judges are women, including three of the nine Justices seated on the U.S. Supreme Court bench. Women hold more than 30 percent of U.S. law school deanships and serve as general counsel to 24 percent of Fortune 500 companies. In my long life, I have seen great changes!II
"In my long life I have seen great changes!"
Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
our nation’s enduring values,
our Constitution shields the right to think, speak, and write without fear of reprisal from governmental authorities.IV
always to stimulate, never to wound.
stop worrying and find a way to manage
A. A. Milne poems,
Winnie the pooh
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.
the office I hold, now for more than twenty-three years, is the best and most consuming job a lawyer anywhere could have.IX
we ultimately agree far more often than we divide sharply.
As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.XII
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
left-handed Ruth
to “convert” her into a right-hander. The result was a D in penmanship.
my cooking never came out the way it was supposed to.”
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. (Of all the March sisters, Ruth loved the lively independent intellectual Jo the best.)
Obviously Jo was the best
“Nancy was a girl who did things. She was adventuresome, daring, and her boyfriend was a much more passive type than she was.”
Shakespeare’s Henry V Epilogue (“Small time, but, in that small, most greatly lived
conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way.
Today people of almost every religion respect and accept them as a code of ethics and a standard of behavior.
The ten commandments .. respect them
The Declaration of Independence of our own U.S. may well be considered one of the most important steps in the shaping of the world.
suppress any acts of aggression or other breaches of peace.
It is vital that peace be assured, for now we have a weapon that can destroy the world.
We must try to train ourselves and those about us to live together with one another as good neighbors for this idea is embodied in the great new Charter of the United Nations. It is the only way to secure the world against future wars and maintain an everlasting peace.
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rigid adherence to seemingly hypocritical rules and the inferior role assigned to women.
“Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”
No one can feel free from danger and destruction until the many torn threads of civilization are bound together again.
meet together in good faith, the people worthy of mutual association.
There can be a happy world and there will be once again, when men create a strong bond towards one another, a bond unbreakable by a studied prejudice or a passing circumstance. Then and only then shall we have a world built on the foundation of th...
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Even today, when I read, I notice with pleasure when an author has chosen a particular word, a particular place, for the picture it will convey to the reader.”
in the interests of national security:
No person, whether he be an adherent of McCarthyism or not, should righteously attempt to protect people who can be proved guilty of crimes by preventing the use of damning evidence.”
shortcuts in the name of efficiency often reduce effectiveness in the long run,
commitment to individual rights
the presumption of innoc...
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the protection of the innocent has always been basic to our concept of justice.
Particularly in the case of political crimes, the value of making it easier to apply the criminal sanction, when the conduct in question often involves slight danger and little conscious wrongdoing, should be seriously reflected.
the purpose of the criminal sanction? Is it just to put a man behind bars, or is it to attach the moral condemnation of the community to certain forms of behavior?
the criminal sanction is still the most extreme measure that is available to the government, and it should not be lightly employed if other satisfactory alternatives can be substituted.
When attempts to prevent certain forms of behavior may place individual rights and liberties in peril, the criminal sanction should be saved as a last resort.
making it unnecessary to seek other sources of proof.
We may be anxious to reduce crime, but we should remember that in our system of justice, the presumption of innocence is prime, and the law cannot apply one rule to Joe who is a good man, and another to John, who is a hardened criminal.
“He’s so secure about himself, he never regarded me as any kind of threat to his ego. On the contrary, he took great pride in being married to someone he considered very able.”
not your woman, I am a person!
had been converted through typing.
all events, we celebrate this evening a grand performance born of great intelligence, fine judgment, personal warmth, unremittingly hard work, and an advantageous marriage, which is just what I expected after our second date fifty-three years ago.
a classic conflict between man’s law and divine justice.
Plot of Captain Vere, fugitive slave law
what does killing him accomplish?
“Such is the character of human language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single definite idea. . . .”
Quote from remarks at Scalia funeral - john marshall
