“It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

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.

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

You can’t have it all, all at once.

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

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

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.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Throw ahead up the court then trail back into it! The ball will always find you back when you share.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.