Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Shirley Hufstedler

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Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler was an American attorney and judge who served as the first United States secretary of education from 1979 to 1981. She previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1968 to 1979. At the time of her presidential cabinet appointment under President Jimmy Carter, she was the highest ranking-woman in the federal judiciary of the United States.

American - Public Servant | August 24, 1925 - March 30, 2016

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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Shirley Hufstedler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Hufstedler

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

Shirley Hufstedler

Justice is a blindfolded woman.

Shirley Hufstedler

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Shirley Hufstedler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

Shirley Hufstedler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Hufstedler

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

Shirley Hufstedler

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

Shirley Hufstedler

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

Shirley Hufstedler

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Shirley Hufstedler

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Shirley Hufstedler

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