“You can’t have it all, all at once.”

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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.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

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

He gave me a look at myself I’ve never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Facts are true whether or not you believe them.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.

What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.

I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.