“Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.”

In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am — and this ought to be made very clear — I am a very serious woman.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

The inside operation of Congress – the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building – is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

the women’s movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don’t care what happened before. I don’t even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing – I’ll take it in those fifteen minutes.

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

Work hard, think fast and you’ll last.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness–not expecting any one thing to last forever.