“Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.”

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

We don’t truly know anyone or everything if we did, we wouldn’t need books.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Beware the man of a single book.

She was a open book, what a shame it was that most men were illiterate.

How is it that you can love somebody even more with time? Because the longer the story, my love, the more you fill the book.

Stardust collected was found in the crumpled pages of my books, for I travelled in all the realms through them.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.