How sexist can you get?

Found this interview with Sandra Day O'Connor reading The Corner:

She immediately described John G. Roberts as a "brilliant legal mind, a straight shooter, articulate, and he should not have trouble being confirmed by October. He's good in every way, except he's not a woman."

She said she was almost sure President Bush would not appoint a woman as a replacement for William H. Rehnquist because she didn't think he would want a woman as chief justice. "So that almost assures there won't be a woman appointed to the court at this time."

I suppose that could be surgically corrected in this day and age, but one wonders what that has to do with his ability to sit on the Supreme Court. Is it that whole leg-crossing thing, or what? The toilet seat issue?