“Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.”

Be independent and be a lady.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

You can’t have it all, all at once.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

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.

Don’t allow people behaviour to turn you into a person you are not.

Change allows us to live as the best version of ourselves.

I’m not going to say I’m sorry for the things that I’ve done because I think that it allows me to tell a story.

Don’t allow the world to define your life. Instead, allow yourself to open the eyes of the world.

You are allowed to unfollow toxic people.

You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts.

You’re allowed to disagree. You’re allowed to live differently. You’re allowed to struggle publicly, but I’m also allowed to NOT struggle publicly.

Allowing people to have space for self-growth is a powerful form of love.