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

My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”

Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

Do what makes you happy, and don’t care what others think.