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Shirley Hufstedler

  • “Justice is a blindfolded woman.”

    • Shirley Hufstedler,
    • "The Unending Rush to the Courts," The Utah Bar Journal ()

  • “I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.”

    • Shirley Hufstedler,
    • in Newsweek ()

  • “Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.”

    • Shirley Hufstedler

  • “If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.”

    • Shirley Hufstedler

  • “I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. Perhaps for a few people at some time in history there was such an age. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.”

    • Shirley Hufstedler

Shirley Hufstedler, U.S. attorney, judge, Secretary of Education,

(1926)

Full name: Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler.