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

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.

As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.

I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.