Sandra Day O'Connor

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.