“If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.”

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.

Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

An operatic voice is like no other.

As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

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

It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.