Maryanne Trump Barry Quotes

Maryanne Trump Barry

Profession : Judge

Birth : April 5, 1937

Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?

Maryanne Trump Barry

I stand second to none in condemning sexual harassment of women.

Maryanne Trump Barry

I do the laundry. I do the shopping. I do the dishes.

Maryanne Trump Barry

I say to the women out there, remember how difficult it was for women like Justice O'Connor starting out. Even though she graduated with top grades, she had to take a job as a legal secretary. Remember how far we have come.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Neither of my parents had English as a first language.

Maryanne Trump Barry

My father's father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder's mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too icy for the mules to climb the hills.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Needless to say, I don't want a woman working for me who's waiting for me to shoot myself in the foot.

Maryanne Trump Barry

I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don't know what they're missing.

Maryanne Trump Barry

There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.

Maryanne Trump Barry

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

Maryanne Trump Barry

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

Maryanne Trump Barry

My personal opinions on any subject are really not relevant, not important, and to the extent that I might inject them, I am acting improperly as either a District Court judge or as an appellate court judge.

Maryanne Trump Barry

I refuse to believe that 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...' is now an empty entreaty. But if it is, shame on us.

Maryanne Trump Barry

My gifts to causes in which I believe have almost always been anonymous.

Maryanne Trump Barry

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

Maryanne Trump Barry

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

Maryanne Trump Barry