“People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.”

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.

As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.

Beauty is a treat for yourself. Don’t blind it with your blindness.

Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.

This is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.

I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.

Stress blind you with your blessings.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.