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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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My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

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Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

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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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I was a proponent of the ERA.

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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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Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.

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

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Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

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I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 15th, 1933

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