“Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives’ course no less than men are.”

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

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.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I’m an adult and I’m acting like a kid.

And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I’m just a very emotional human.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.