“So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”

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.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can’t change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person I’m trying to become… You are not your past!

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.

Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.