“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.””

You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Don’t worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.

There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.