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

I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

Dissents speak to a future age.

One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.