“I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.”

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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

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

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

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.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.